4Give them this command for their masters: ‘This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: This is what you are to say to your masters:
5By my great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth, the people, and the animals that are on it. I give it to anyone I choose.
6Now I have handed over all these lands to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him.
7All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.
8But any nation or kingdom that will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or place its neck under his yoke—I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.