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Jeremias 27

BLIVRE · Chapter 27/52

1No princípio do reinado de Jeoaquim ,filho de Josias, rei de Judá, veio do SENHOR esta palavra a Jeremias, dizendo:

2Assim me disse o SENHOR: Faz para ti amarras e jugos, e os põe sobre teu pescoço;

3E envia-os ao rei de Edom, ao rei de Moabe, ao rei dos filhos de Amom, ao rei de Tiro, e ao rei de Sidom, pelas mãos dos mensageiros que vêm a Jerusalém a Zedequias, rei de Judá.

4E manda-lhes que digam a seus senhores: Assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos, Deus de Israel: Assim direis a vossos senhores:

5Eu fiz a terra, o homem, e os animais que estão sobre a face da terra, com meu grande poder e com meu braço estendido, e a dou a quem for do meu agrado.

6E agora dei todas estas terras na mão de Nabucodonosor, rei de Babilônia, meu servo, e até mesmo os animais do campo eu lhe dei, para que o sirvam.

7E todas as nações servirão a ele, a seu filho, e ao filho de seu filho, até que também venha o tempo de sua própria terra; então servirá a muitas nações e grandes reis.

8E será que a nação e o reino que não servir a Nabucodonosor, rei da Babilônia, e que não puser seu pescoço sob do jugo do rei de Babilônia, então com espada, com fome e com pestilência castigarei tal nação, diz o SENHOR, até que eu os consuma por meio de sua mão.

9E vós não deis ouvidos a vossos profetas, nem a vossos adivinhos, nem a vossos sonhos, nem a vossos videntes, nem a vossos encantadores, que vos falam, dizendo: Não servireis ao rei da Babilônia.

10Pois eles vos profetizam mentiras, para vos afastardes de vossa terra, e para que eu vos afugente, e pereçais.

11Mas a nação que pôr seu pescoço sob o jugo do rei da Babilônia, e o servir, a essa eu deixarei ficar em seu terra, e a cultivará, e nela habitará diz o SENHOR.

12E falei também a Zedequias, rei de Judá, conforme todas estas palavras, dizendo: Ponde vossos pescoços sob o jugo do rei da Babilônia, e servi a ele e a seu povo; então vivereis.

13Por que morreríeis, tu e teu povo, pela espada, pela fome, pela pestilência, tal como disse o SENHOR sobre a nação que não servir ao rei da Babilônia?

14Não escuteis as palavras dos profetas que vos falam, dizendo: Não servireis ao rei da Babilônia; pois eles vos profetizam mentiras.

15Pois eu não os enviei, diz o SENHOR, e eles profetizam falsamente em meu nome, para que eu vos afugente, e pereçais, vós e os profetas que vos profetizam.

16Também falei aos sacerdotes e a todo este povo, dizendo: Assim diz o SENHOR: Não escuteis as palavras de vossos profetas, que vos profetizam, dizendo: Eis que os vasos da casa do SENHOR voltarão da Babilônia em breve. Pois eles vos profetizam mentiras.

17Não escuteis a eles; servi ao rei de Babilônia, e então vivereis; por que se tornaria esta cidade em deserto?

18Porém se eles são profetas, e se a palavra do SENHOR é com eles, orem agora ao SENHOR dos exércitos, que os objetos de valor que restaram na casa do SENHOR, na casa do rei de Judá, e em Jerusalém, não vão para a Babilônia.

19Porque assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos quanto às colunas, ao mar, às bases, e ao restante dos objetos de valor que restaram nesta cidade,

20Que Nabucodonosor, rei da Babilônia, não tomou, quando levou cativo de Jerusalém a Babilônia a Jeconias, filho de Jeoaquim, rei de Judá, e a todos os nobres de Judá e de Jerusalém;

21Assim pois diz o SENHOR dos exércitos, Deus de Israel, quanto aos objetos de valor que restaram [na] casa do SENHOR, e [na] casa do rei de Judá, e [em] Jerusalém:

22Para a Babilônia serão levados, e ali ficarão até o dia em que eu os punirei, diz o SENHOR; então depois eu os farei subir, e os restituirei a este lugar.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Jeremiah wears a wooden yoke on his own neck as a prophetic sign, advising Judah and neighboring nations to submit peacefully to the king of Babylon, since resisting would be futile.

Explanation

The yoke was a physical object used on oxen for farm labor, and wearing one publicly as a sign was a dramatic way of communicating submission. Jeremiah's advice sounded almost treasonous to nationalist ears: accept Babylonian rule instead of resisting. But his prophetic logic was that resisting a judgment already decreed by God would only prolong the suffering. The chapter also warns against the prophets who promised a swift return of the sacred vessels of the temple, already taken to Babylon — a lie that offered false hope instead of real preparation for the situation.

Fun facts

  • The wooden yoke, literally used on draft oxen, was immediately understood by anyone in that agrarian society as a symbol of submission and forced labor.
  • The reference to the 'vessels of the house of the LORD' (pillars, the bronze sea, the stands) describes real objects from Solomon's temple, later detailed in 2 Kings 25 and Jeremiah 52.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Jeremias 27:1The text says “Jehoiakim” here, but it is a well-known ancient copying error: the rest of the chapter (verses 3 and 12) makes clear it is the reign of Zedekiah, the last king before the fall of Jerusalem.
  2. Jeremias 27:2Jeremiah makes and wears wooden yokes, and sends copies to the neighboring kings (Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Sidon). The uncomfortable message is that Nebuchadnezzar acts as God’s instrument in this phase of history, so resisting him for now would be fighting against God’s own plan — not because Babylon was good, but because it was time to submit.
  3. Jeremias 27:3Jeremiah was to send the same yoke warning to the neighboring kings — Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon — through their ambassadors who were in Jerusalem visiting Zedekiah, probably plotting an alliance against Babylon.
  4. Jeremias 27:4The messengers were to carry God’s message back to the very kings who sent them — the warning was not only for Judah; the order to submit to Babylon applied to the whole region.
  5. Jeremias 27:5God presents Himself as the creator of everything to justify the authority He is handing out: if He made the earth and the animals, He has the right to decide who rules over whom, even giving power to a pagan king.
  6. Jeremias 27:6Calling Nebuchadnezzar “my servant” is shocking: a foreign king being used as God’s instrument to punish Judah, even without knowing or acknowledging it.
  7. Jeremias 27:7Babylonian domination would not be eternal: it would last until Babylon’s own turn to fall came, which would happen decades later, at the hands of the Persians.
  8. Jeremias 27:8A direct warning: whoever resists Nebuchadnezzar will be destroyed by sword, famine, and plague — the same triad of disasters Jeremiah repeats throughout the book to describe the siege.
  9. Jeremias 27:9Diviners, dreams, and soothsayers were common political consulting practices at the time. Jeremiah warns that the religious advisers who promised deliverance from Babylon were, in practice, pushing the people out of their own land.
  10. Jeremias 27:10The prophets who promised deliverance from Babylon were lying: following that advice would end in exile anyway, only without God’s protection.
  11. Jeremias 27:11The promise is almost counterintuitive: whoever agreed to serve Babylon would keep living in their own land, planting and harvesting — it is resistance that would bring destruction.
  12. Jeremias 27:12Jeremiah repeats the same message now directly to King Zedekiah: accepting Babylonian rule was the only way to survive, not a political act of cowardice.
  13. Jeremias 27:13A rhetorical question: why die resisting when surrender means living? Jeremiah insists that surrender is not betrayal, it is the only realistic way out.
  14. Jeremias 27:14The warning against listening to the false prophets appears again because that was the real pressure on Zedekiah: optimistic voices promising a quick deliverance that was not going to happen.
  15. Jeremias 27:15God makes clear that He did not send these prophets: they speak in His name without authorization, and the result of the lie will be exile for everyone, including the prophets themselves.
  16. Jeremias 27:16The priests were also hearing prophecies that the sacred vessels of the temple, already carried off by Nebuchadnezzar in an earlier raid, would soon return — Jeremiah says it is a lie.
  17. Jeremias 27:17Once again the direct instruction: accepting Babylon is the difference between the city remaining standing or becoming a wasteland.
  18. Jeremias 27:18A concrete challenge to the false prophets: if they really speak for God, let them pray that the vessels still remaining in the temple not be carried off as well — a test they would not pass.
  19. Jeremias 27:19A historical detail: the pillars, the “sea” (a giant bronze basin), and the bases were massive pieces from Solomon’s temple, still standing at this time — it is about them that the next oracle speaks.
  20. Jeremias 27:20Context: Nebuchadnezzar had already carried out a first wave of deportation in 597 BC, taking King Jehoiakim (Jeconiah) and the nobility, but without yet emptying the whole temple treasury.
  21. Jeremias 27:21A repetition of the formal address before the final oracle about the fate of the temple vessels still remaining in Jerusalem.
  22. Jeremias 27:22The prophecy ends with a hidden hope in the middle of the warning: the vessels are going to Babylon, but one day God will bring them back — anticipating the end of the exile.

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