Catholic Public Domain Version
"“Thus says the Lord to me: Make bands and chains for yourself. And you shall place them on your neck. "
— Jeremiah 27:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,”
“Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck; ”
“Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;”
“The LORD told me,“Make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.”
“Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.”
“This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;”
“Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,”
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:
“Thus says the Lord to me: Make bands and chains for yourself. And you shall place them on your neck.
And you shall send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the sons of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who came to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, the king of Judah.
And you shall instruct them to say to their masters: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You shall say these things to your masters:
I made the earth, and the men and beasts which are upon the face of the earth, by my great strength and by my outstretched arm. And I have given it to whomever it was pleasing in my eyes.