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Jeremiah 27:10
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For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.
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For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
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for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.
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for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
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Jeremiah 27
8 As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
9 But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
10 For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.
11 But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
12 And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!
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