Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon land live! wherefore, should this city become a desolation?
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?
Amplified
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
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?'
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
Interlinear
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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 Also unto the priests, and unto all this people, spake I, saying, Thus! saith Yahweh, Do not hearken unto the words of your prophets, who are prophesying unto you saying, Lo! the vessels of the house of Yahweh, are to be brought back out of Babylon now, quickly; for falsehood, are they prophesying unto you. 17 Do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon land live! wherefore, should this city become a desolation? 18 But, if prophets, they are, and if the word of Yahweh is with them, let them intercede, I pray you, with Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels which are left remaining in the house of Yahweh and the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem, come not into Babylon.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:34
So will I cause to cease, From the cities of Judah, and, From the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and The voice of the bride, - For, a desolation, shall the land become.
Jeremiah 27:11-13
But the nation that shall bring its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in quietness upon their own soil, Declareth Yahweh, and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jeremiah 38:17
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah - Thus, saith Yahweh God of hosts, God of Israel - If thou wilt, indeed go forth, unto the princes of the king of Babylon, then shall thine own soul live, and, this city, shall not be burned with fire, - but thou shalt live, thou and thy house.
Jeremiah 38:23
Yea thou shalt behold all thy wives and thy children brought forth unto the Chaldeans, and thou, shalt not escape out of their hand, - but by the hand of the king of Babylon, shalt thou be taken, and, this city, shall be burned with fire.