Jérémie 27:12

12 Puis je parlai à Sédécias, roi de Juda, conformément à toutes ces paroles, en disant: Soumettez-vous au joug du roi de Babylone, et servez-le, lui et son peuple, et vous vivrez.

Jérémie 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 27:12

I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah
At the same time that he delivered the above message from the Lord to the ambassadors of several nations, who were then residents in Zedekiah's court, or however in Jerusalem: according to all these words;
the same things, and much in the same language, he said to the king of Judah, as to the messengers of the nations: saying;
as follows: bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon;
you, O king, your nobles, and your people. Zedekiah was set upon the throne by the king of Babylon, was a tributary to him, and had took an oath to be faithful to him; and yet was now meditating rebellion against him; and was consulting and entering into a confederacy with the neighbouring nations to throw off the yoke, and be independent on him: wherefore the sense of this advice must be to bring themselves, he and his people, to a cheerful submission to it, and a patient bearing it, and not attempt to shake it off: and serve him and his people, and live:
the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans, by faithfully paying the tribute, and acknowledging subjection to him; and so "live" in their own land, enjoying all other civil and religious privileges.

Jérémie 27:12 In-Context

10 Car ils vous prophétisent le mensonge, pour que vous alliez loin de votre pays, afin que je vous en chasse et que vous périssiez.
11 Mais la nation qui soumettra son cou au joug du roi de Babylone et le servira, je la laisserai dans son pays, dit l'Éternel, afin qu'elle le cultive et y demeure.
12 Puis je parlai à Sédécias, roi de Juda, conformément à toutes ces paroles, en disant: Soumettez-vous au joug du roi de Babylone, et servez-le, lui et son peuple, et vous vivrez.
13 Pourquoi mourriez-vous, toi et ton peuple, par l'épée, par la famine et par la peste, selon que l'Éternel l'a dit de la nation qui ne se soumettrait pas au roi de Babylone?
14 N'écoutez donc pas les paroles des prophètes qui vous parlent en disant: Vous ne serez point assujettis au roi de Babylone! Car ils vous prophétisent le mensonge.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.