‘This is what Jehovah has said to me, “Make for yourself bands and yoke bars, and you must put them upon your neck.

23. How long was the servitude to Babylon to be, and what would befall the nation resisting Jehovah’s decree?

²³ So, by Jehovah’s decree, it was to be a long time​—in fact, 70 years—​that the nations swallowed up by the Babylonian Empire were to bear the yoke of servitude. Such servitude was symbolized by the bands and yoke bars that Jehovah told Jeremiah to make and give to the foreign envoys who visited King Zedekiah.