Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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 I spake to the Priests also, and to all the people, "Thus sayeth the LORD: Hear not the words of those Prophets, that preach unto you, and say, 'Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall shortly be brought hither again from Babylon.' For they prophesy lies unto you. 17 Hear them not, but serve the king of Babylon, that ye may live. Wherefore will ye make this city to be destroyed? 18 But if they be true Prophets in very deed, and if the word of the LORD be committed unto them, then let them pray the LORD of Hosts that the remnant of the ornaments, which are in the house of the LORD, and remain yet in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, be not carried to Babylon also.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:34
And as for the voice of mirth and gladness of the cities of Judah and Jerusalem; the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: I will make them cease, for the land shall be desolate."
Jeremiah 27:11-13
But the people that put their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those I will let remain still in their own land, sayeth the LORD, and they shall occupy it, and dwell therein.'"
Jeremiah 38:17
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: If cause be, that thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, thou shalt save thy life, and this city shall not be burnt, yea both thou and thy household shall escape with your lives.
Jeremiah 38:23
Therefore all thy wives with their children shall flee unto the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but shalt be the king of Babylon's prisoner, and this city shall be burnt."