1-2. Not long after Zedekiah became king of Judah, the Lord told me:Jeremiah, make a wooden yoke with leather straps, and place it on your neck.
3. Then send a message to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon. Some officials from these countries are in Jerusalem, meeting with Zedekiah.
19-21. After all, when Nebuchadnezzar took King Jehoiachin to Babylonia as a prisoner, he didn't take everything of value from Jerusalem. He left the bronze pillars, the huge bronze bowl called the Sea, and the moveable bronze stands in the temple, and he left a lot of other valuable things in the palace and in the rest of Jerusalem.But now I, the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, say that all these things