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Jeremiah 27:11
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11 Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to[a] the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation[b] in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 27:11 tn Heb “put their necks in the yoke of.” See the study note on v. 2 for the figure.
  2. Jeremiah 27:11 tn The words “Things will go better for” are not in the text. They are supplied contextually as a means of breaking up the awkward syntax of the original, which reads, “The nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and subjects itself to him, I will leave it…”
  3. Jeremiah 27:11 tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”
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