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Jeremías 27

VBL · Chapter 27/52

1Este mensaje llegó a Jeremías de parte del Señor al comienzo del reinado de Sedequías, hijo de Josías, rey de Judá.

2Esto es lo que me dijo el Señor: Hazte un arnés y un yugo y átalo a tu cuello

3Envía un mensaje a los reyes de Edom, Moab, Amón, Tiro y Sidón por medio de los embajadores que han venido a Jerusalén a ver a Sedequías, rey de Judá.

4Dales esta orden del Señor Todopoderoso, el Dios de Israel, para que la transmitan a sus señores:

5Por mi fuerza y mi poder creador hice la tierra y los seres humanos y los animales que la habitan, y la entrego a los que son rectos a mis ojos.

6Ahora he puesto a mi siervo Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, a cargo de todos estos países. Incluso le he dado el control de los animales salvajes.

7Todas las naciones le servirán a él, a su hijo y a su nieto, hasta el momento en que su propia tierra quede bajo el control de otras naciones y de reyes poderosos.

8Cualquier nación o reino que no sirva a Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y no se someta a él Castigaré a esa nación con guerra, hambre y peste, declara el Señor, hasta que deje que Nabucodonosor la destruya por completo.

9No escuches a tus profetas, a tus adivinos, a tus intérpretes de sueños, a tus médiums o a tus magos cuando te digan: “No servirás al rey de Babilonia”.

10Ellos te están profetizando una mentira que te llevará a la expulsión de tu país. Te expulsaré y morirás.

11Pero a la nación que se someta al rey de Babilonia y le sirva, la dejaré en su propia tierra, para que la cultive y viva en ella, declara el Señor.

12El mismo mensaje le di a Sedequías, rey de Judá: Sométete al rey de Babilonia; sírvele a él y a su pueblo, y vive.

13¿Por qué han de morir tú y tu pueblo a causa de la guerra, el hambre y la peste, como el Señor ha dicho que traería contra cualquier nación que no sirva al rey de Babilonia?

14No escuches los mensajes de los profetas que dicen: “No servirás al rey de Babilonia”, porque te están profetizando una mentira.

15Yo no los envié, declara el Señor, y sin embargo están dando falsas profecías en mi nombre. Por eso los expulsaré y morirán, ustedes y los profetas que les profetizan.

16Entonces dije a los sacerdotes y a todo el pueblo: Esto es lo que dice el Señor: No escuchen las palabras de sus profetas que les profetizan diciendo: “¡Miren! Los objetos del Templo del Señor volverán pronto de Babilonia”. Te están profetizando una mentira.

17No los escuches. Sirvan al rey de Babilonia y vivan. ¿Por qué debe ser destruida esta ciudad?

18Si realmente son profetas y tienen la palabra del Señor consigo, deberían estar suplicando ahora al Señor Todopoderoso que lo que queda en el Templo del Señor, en el palacio del rey de Judá y en Jerusalén, no sea llevado a Babilonia.

19Esto dice el Señor Todopoderoso sobre las columnas, el mar de bronce, las bases y el resto de los objetos que quedan en Jerusalén:

20todo lo que Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, no se llevó cuando tomó a Joaquín hijo de Joacim, rey de Judá, al exilio de Jerusalén a Babilonia, junto con todos los nobles de Judá y de Jerusalén.

21De nuevo, esto es lo que dice el Señor Todopoderoso, el Dios de Israel, sobre los objetos que quedaron en el Templo del Señor, en el palacio del rey de Judá y en Jerusalén:

22Serán llevados a Babilonia y se quedarán allí hasta el momento en que vuelva a verlos, declara el Señor. Sólo entonces los traeré de vuelta para que vuelvan a estar en Jerusalén.

📖 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 27:10The prophets who promised deliverance from Babylon were lying: following that advice would end in exile anyway, only without God’s protection.
  11. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 27:17Once again the direct instruction: accepting Babylon is the difference between the city remaining standing or becoming a wasteland.
  18. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 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. Jeremías 27:21A repetition of the formal address before the final oracle about the fate of the temple vessels still remaining in Jerusalem.
  22. Jeremías 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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