Parallel Verses
Amplified
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
New American Standard Bible
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city
King James Version
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Holman Bible
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
International Standard Version
Don't listen to them! Serve the king of Babylon and you'll live. Why should this city become a ruin?
A Conservative Version
Hearken not to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
American Standard Version
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?
Bible in Basic English
Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?
Darby Translation
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a waste?
Julia Smith Translation
Ye shall not hear to them; serve ye the king of Babel, and live: wherefore shall this city be laid waste?
King James 2000
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you must not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a site of ruins?
Modern King James verseion
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. For why should this city be laid waste?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear them not, but serve the king of Babylon, that ye may live. Wherefore will ye make this city to be destroyed?
NET Bible
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?'"
New Heart English Bible
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?'
The Emphasized Bible
Do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon land live! wherefore, should this city become a desolation?
Webster
Hearken not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?
World English Bible
Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?
Youngs Literal Translation
Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?
Themes
Babylon » The jews exhorted to be subject to, and settle in
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » The allegiance denounced » By jeremiah
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 27:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Vessels Of The Temple
16
Then I said to the priests and to all these people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your [false] prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the articles of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:34
Then I will cause the voices of joy and gladness, and the voices of the bridegroom and the bride to vanish from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem; for the land will become a ruin—a wasteland.
Jeremiah 27:11-13
But the nation which will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, that nation I will let remain on its own land,” says the Lord, “to cultivate it and live in it.”’”
Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘If you will go out and surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live and this city will not be burned with fire; and you and your household will live.
Jeremiah 38:23
Also, all your wives and your children will be brought out to the Chaldeans; and you yourself will not escape from their hand, but you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city [Jerusalem] will be burned down with fire.’”