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.
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, human beings, 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.