Thus saith the LORD to me; Make for thee (b) bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
(b) By such signs the prophets used sometimes to confirm their prophecies which they could not do of themselves but in as much as they had a revelation for the same, (Isaiah 20:2) and therefore the false prophets to get more credit, used also such visible signs but they had no revelation, (1 Kings 22:12).