² thus says the Lord to me—“Make for yourself ^(A)bonds and ^(B)yokes and put them on your neck,

⁸ “It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which ^(A)will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the ^(B)sword, with famine and with pestilence,” declares the Lord, “until I have destroyed ^[a]it by his hand.

¹² I spoke words like all these to ^(A)Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people, and live!