“And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.”
The stark warning that any nation refusing to serve Babylon will face famine, sword, and pestilence establishes divine judgment as the consequence of political resistance rooted in false prophecy. The triadic curse formula—famine, sword, pestilence—appears throughout Jeremiah as God's judgment upon those who reject his word, emphasizing that covenant curses operate with mechanical force. This verse confronts political leaders with an absolute choice: obey God (through submission to Babylon) or face God's covenantal judgment.
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