1. Soon after Josiah's son Zedekiah became king of Judah, the Lord told me
2. to make myself a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and to put it on my neck.
3. Then the Lord told me to send a message to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through their ambassadors who had come to Jerusalem to see King Zedekiah.