Jeremiah 25:27 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 25:28 It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: You shall surely drink. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 25:32 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 26:2 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; don't diminish a word. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 26:4 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 26:18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Jeremiah 27:2 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 27:4 and give them a command to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 27:5 Thus do ye say unto your lords, I -- I have made the earth with man, and the cattle that 'are' on the face of the earth, by My great power, and by My stretched-out arm, and I have given it to whom it hath been right in Mine eyes. (YLT)

Jeremiah 27:16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 27:19 For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 27:21 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 28:2 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 28:11 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 28:13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 28:14 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 28:16 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:4 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:8 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:10 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:16 thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone forth with you into captivity; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:17 thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, (KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 29:25 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 29:32 therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 30:2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 30:5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 30:18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 31:2 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 31:7 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish, praise, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 31:15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 31:16 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke : turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Jeremiah 31:23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 31:37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 32:14 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 32:15 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 32:28 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 32:36 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 32:42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:2 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:12 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:17 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:24 Don't consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 33:25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 34:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 34:4 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 34:13 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 34:17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 35:8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; (KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 35:12 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying: 'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: (YLT)

Jeremiah 35:13 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 35:17 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 35:18 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 35:19 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 36:29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 37:7 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 37:9 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Jeremiah 38:2 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 38:3 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. (KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 38:17 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 39:16 Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 42:9 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 42:15 now therefore hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 42:17 Thus are all the men who have set their faces to enter Egypt to sojourn there; they die -- by sword, by hunger, and by pestilence, and there is not to them a remnant and an escaped one, because of the evil that I am bringing in upon them; (YLT)

Jeremiah 42:18 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 43:7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes. (KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 43:10 and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 44:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 44:7 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 44:22 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day. (See NAS)

Jeremiah 44:25 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 44:30 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 45:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 45:4 You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 47:2 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 48:1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 48:40 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 48:47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 49:1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 49:7 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 49:12 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 49:28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 49:35 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 50:18 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 50:33 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)