Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Go and tell Hananiah this message from the LORD: 'You have broken the wooden yokes, but now you will create iron yokes to replace them.'
God is telling the false prophet Hananiah that by breaking the symbolic wooden yoke, he has only made the coming judgment worse - like replacing wooden chains with iron ones.
📚 Historical Context
This occurs during a confrontation between the prophet Jeremiah and the false prophet Hananiah around 594 BC. Jeremiah had been wearing a wooden yoke as a symbol of Judah's coming subjugation to Babylon, but Hananiah dramatically broke it, claiming God would break Babylon's power within two years. God's response through Jeremiah was that this act of defiance would only lead to harsher consequences.
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