Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
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?
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?'
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
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
Then I spoke to the priests and all these people, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not listen to the words of your prophets. They are prophesying to you, claiming, “Look, very soon now the articles of the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon.”
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:34
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride,
Jeremiah 27:11-13
But as for the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it in its own land, and that nation will cultivate
Jeremiah 38:17
Jeremiah therefore said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If indeed you surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon,
Jeremiah 38:23
All your wives and sons will be brought out to the Chaldeans.