Jeremiah 27:17
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?In other versions
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?
ASV
Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?
BBE
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a waste?
DBY
Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?
WEB
Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?
YLT
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
ENG
Hearken not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?
WBT
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
BSB
In context
15For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
16Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
18But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
19For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city.