2 Thus the Lord said to me: ^c“Make yourself straps and ^dyoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

8 “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^qand put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation ^rwith the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand.