1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jeremiah 27:1 | In *the beginning of the reign of Joakim, the son of Josias, king of Juda, this word came to Jeremias, from the Lord, saying: | Year of the World 3395, Year before Christ 609. Joakim. This revelation was made to the prophet in the beginning of the reign of Joakim: but the bands were not sent, to the princes here named, before the reign of Sedecias, ver. 3. (Challoner) --- He wore them six or seven years. (Vatable) (Tirinus) --- But this is uncertain. Septuagint omit this title. Syriac, Arabic, etc., read "Sedecias." (Calmet) --- As far as Juda may belong to the last chapter. St. Jerome includes the whole verse. (Haydock) --- It seems to be rather a fresh prophecy, or the title may be spurious, like many in the Psalms. See Jeremias 26:1., and 28:1., and Isaias 21:13. |
| Jeremiah 27:2 | Thus saith the Lord, to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck. | Chains. Hebrew, "a yoke and pole," (Calmet) or piece of wood for the necks of slaves. (St. Jerome) --- Thus would the servitude of these nations be clearly represented. (Haydock) --- Bands and chains were proper signs, as they were used to bind captives. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 27:3 | And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to Jerusalem, to Sedecias, the king of Juda. | Edom. Thus he exercises the function of prophet among the nations, Jeremias 1:5. These had come to compliment Sedecias, or rather to form a league. |
| Jeremiah 27:4 | And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters: | |
| Jeremiah 27:5 | I made the earth, and the men, and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes. | Eyes. God disposes of all princes, etc. His prophets speak boldly. (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 27:6 | And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him. | Beasts. The property of those people, or the most barbarous nations. (St. Jerome) --- Hangmen and executioners may in the same sense be styled God's servants. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 27:7 | And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son: till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great kings shall serve him. | His son; viz., Evilmerodach, and his son's son, viz., Nabonydus, or Nabonadius, the Baltassar of Daniel, (chap. 5.) and the last of the Chaldean kings. (Challoner) --- Come. It will not be long before this rod is cast into the fire, the usual fate of those who execute God's vengeance. |
| Jeremiah 27:8 | But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them by his hand. | |
| Jeremiah 27:9 | *Therefore, hearken not to your prophets and diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not serve the king Babylon. Jeremias 23:16.; Jeremias 29:8. | Prophets, who deluded the Jews, as diviners did the Gentiles. |
| Jeremiah 27:10 | For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and cast you out, and to make you perish. | To remove. Hebrew, "that I may," etc. This will be the effect, though contrary to their intention. |
| Jeremiah 27:11 | But the nation that shall bend down their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and shall serve him: I will let them remain in their own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it, and dwell in it. | In it. None complied, and though the Idumeans, etc., joined the Chaldeans against Juda, they were punished (Calmet) for their former league, ver. 3. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 27:12 | And I spoke to Sedecias, the king of Juda, according to all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live. | |
| Jeremiah 27:13 | Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoke against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? | |
| Jeremiah 27:14 | Hearken not to the words of the prophets, that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie. | |
| Jeremiah 27:15 | *For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they prophesy in my name falsely: to drive you out, and that you may perish, both you and the prophets, that prophesy to you. Jeremias 14:14.; Jeremias 23:21.; Jeremias 29:9. | |
| Jeremiah 27:16 | I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that prophesy to you, saying: Behold, the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short time be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. | Time. Hananias specified two years, (chap. 28:3.) which proved false. Some "silver vessels," (Baruch 1:8.) and not those of gold, it seems, (Calmet) or not all, (Haydock) were restored at the request of Saraias, Jeremias 51:59. |
| Jeremiah 27:17 | Therefore, hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation? | |
| Jeremiah 27:18 | But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in them: let them interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the vessels which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon. | Hosts. If they prevail, account me a false prophet. (Calmet) --- The things taken shall not be soon restored; but more shall be conveyed away. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 27:19 | For thus saith the Lord of hosts *to the pillars, and to the sea, and to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels that remain in this city: 4 Kings 25:13. | To thee. Hebrew also, "concerning," as [in] ver. 21., (Haydock) though (Calmet) inanimate things are often spoken to. (St. Jerome) |
| Jeremiah 27:20 | Which Nabuchodonosor, the king of Babylon, did not take, when he carried away Jechonias, the son of Joakim, the king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem. | |
| Jeremiah 27:21 | For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda and Jerusalem: | |
| Jeremiah 27:22 | They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to be brought, and to be restored in this place. |