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“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,[a] ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Within two years[b] I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of Yahweh which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took away from this place and brought to Babylon. And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the exiles[c] from Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place,’ declares[d] Yahweh, ‘For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 28:2 Literally “to say”
  2. Jeremiah 28:3 Literally “In still two years days”
  3. Jeremiah 28:4 Hebrew “exile”
  4. Jeremiah 28:4 Literally “a declaration of”

“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will break the yoke(A) of the king of Babylon. Within two years I will bring back to this place all the articles(B) of the Lord’s house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and took to Babylon. I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin[a](C) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all the other exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 28:4 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin