“ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says:‘ I will remove the yoke of the king of Babylon from your necks.

“万军之耶和华以色列的神如此说：我已经折断巴比伦王的轭。

“万军之耶和华—以色列的上帝如此说：我已经折断巴比伦王的轭。

“万军之耶和华—以色列的神如此说：我已经折断巴比伦王的轭。

“以色列的上帝——万军之耶和华说，‘我必折断巴比伦王奴役你们的轭。

“万军之耶和华以色列的神这样说：‘我已经折断了巴比伦王的轭。

「萬軍之耶和華－以色列的神如此說：我已經折斷巴比倫王的軛。

「萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：我已經折斷巴比倫王的軛。

「萬軍之耶和華－以色列的神如此說：我已經折斷巴比倫王的軛。

「以色列的上帝——萬軍之耶和華說，『我必折斷巴比倫王奴役你們的軛。

“萬軍之耶和華以色列的神這樣說：‘我已經折斷了巴比倫王的軛。

『萬軍之永恆主以色列之上帝這麼說：我已經折斷了巴比倫王的軛。

萬軍之耶和華、以色列之上帝云、我已折巴比倫王之軛、

萬有之主以色列之天主如是云、我已折巴比倫王之軛、

“ This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:‘ I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“ The Lord who rules over all is the God of Israel. He says,‘ I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“ This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says:‘ I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“ This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says:‘ I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“ Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying:‘ I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“ This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:‘ I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“ The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says,‘ I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.

“ Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says,‘ I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

This is what the Lord said to me:“ Make a yoke, and fasten it on your neck with leather straps.Then send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through their ambassadors who have come to see King Zedekiah in Jerusalem.Give them this message for their masters:‘ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says:With my great strength and powerful arm I made the earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose.Now I will give your countries to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who is my servant. I have put everything, even the wild animals, under his control.All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his time is up. Then many nations and great kings will conquer and rule over Babylon.So you must submit to Babylon’s king and serve him; put your neck under Babylon’s yoke! I will punish any nation that refuses to be his slave, says the Lord. I will send war, famine, and disease upon that nation until Babylon has conquered it.“‘ Do not listen to your false prophets, fortune tellers, interpreters of dreams, mediums, and sorcerers who say,“ The king of Babylon will not conquer you.”They are all liars, and their lies will lead to your being driven out of your land. I will drive you out and send you far away to die.But the people of any nation that submits to the king of Babylon will be allowed to stay in their own country to farm the land as usual. I, the Lord, have spoken!’”Then I repeated this same message to King Zedekiah of Judah.“ If you want to live, submit to the yoke of the king of Babylon and his people.

You rulers make decisions based on bribes; you priests teach God’s laws only for a price; you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim to depend on the Lord.“ No harm can come to us,” you say,“ for the Lord is here among us.”

They have done nothing to repair the breaks in the walls around the nation. They have not helped it to stand firm in battle on the day of the Lord.Instead, they have told lies and made false predictions. They say,‘ This message is from the Lord,’ even though the Lord never sent them. And yet they expect him to fulfill their prophecies!Can your visions be anything but false if you claim,‘ This message is from the Lord,’ when I have not even spoken to you?“ Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because what you say is false and your visions are a lie, I will stand against you, says the Sovereign Lord.I will raise my fist against all the prophets who see false visions and make lying predictions, and they will be banished from the community of Israel. I will blot their names from Israel’s record books, and they will never again set foot in their own land. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.“ This will happen because these evil prophets deceive my people by saying,‘ All is peaceful’ when there is no peace at all! It’s as if the people have built a flimsy wall, and these prophets are trying to reinforce it by covering it with whitewash!Tell these whitewashers that their wall will soon fall down. A heavy rainstorm will undermine it; great hailstones and mighty winds will knock it down.And when the wall falls, the people will cry out,‘ What happened to your whitewash?’“ Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of fury.I will break down your wall right to its foundation, and when it falls, it will crush you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.At last my anger against the wall and those who covered it with whitewash will be satisfied. Then I will say to you:‘ The wall and those who whitewashed it are both gone.They were lying prophets who claimed peace would come to Jerusalem when there was no peace. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!’