World English Bible
"Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?"
— Jeremiah 27:17, World English Bible
“Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?”
“Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation? ”
“Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?’””
“Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?”
“Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?”
“Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?”
Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.
Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?
But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.
For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;