² this is what the Lord has said to me: “Make for yourself ^(A)restraints and ^(B)yokes and put them on your neck,

⁸ ‘And it will be that the nation or the kingdom which ^(A)will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and 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 plague,’ declares the Lord, ‘until I have eliminated ^[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!