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.
4. The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, told me to command them to tell their kings that the Lord had said:
5. “By my great power and strength I created the world, the human race, and all the animals that live on the earth; and I give it to anyone I choose.
6. I am the one who has placed all these nations under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, and I have made even the wild animals serve him.