Jeremiah:34:8-22

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ylt @Jeremiah:34:8 @The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah , after the making by the king Zedekiah of a covenant with all the people who [are ] in Jerusalem , to proclaim to them liberty , ylt @Jeremiah:34:9 @to send out each his man-servant , and each his maid-servant -- the Hebrew and the Hebrewess -- free , so as not to lay service on them , any on a Jew his brother ; ylt @Jeremiah:34:10 @and hearken do all the heads , and all the people who have come in to the covenant to send forth each his man-servant and each his maid-servant free , so as not to lay service on them any more , yea , they hearken , and send them away ; ylt @Jeremiah:34:11 @and they turn afterwards , and cause the men-servants and the maid-servants to return , whom they had sent forth free , and they subdue them for men-servants and for maid-servants . ylt @Jeremiah:34:12 @And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah from Jehovah , saying : ylt @Jeremiah:34:13 @'Thus said Jehovah , God of Israel , I -- I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt , from a house of servants , saying , ylt @Jeremiah:34:14 @At the end of seven years ye do send forth each his brother , the Hebrew , who is sold to thee , and hath served thee six years , yea , thou hast sent him forth free from thee : and your fathers hearkened not unto Me , nor inclined their ear . ylt @Jeremiah:34:15 @'And ye turn back , ye to-day , and ye do that which is right in Mine eyes , to proclaim liberty each to his neighbour , and ye make a covenant before Me in the house over which My name is called . ylt @Jeremiah:34:16 @And -- ye turn back , and pollute My name , and ye cause each his man-servant and each his maid-servant , whom he had sent forth free , (at their pleasure ,) to return , and ye subdue them to be to you for men-servants and for maid-servants . ylt @Jeremiah:34:17 @'Therefore , thus said Jehovah : Ye have not hearkened unto Me to proclaim freedom , each to his brother , and each to his neighbour ; lo , I am proclaiming to you liberty -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- unto the sword , unto the pestilence , and unto the famine , and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth . ylt @Jeremiah:34:18 @'And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant , who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me , by the calf , that they have cut in two , and pass through between its pieces -- ylt @Jeremiah:34:19 @heads of Judah , and heads of Jerusalem , the officers , and the priests , and all the people of the land those passing through between the pieces of the calf -- ylt @Jeremiah:34:20 @yea , I have given them into the hand of their enemies , and into the hand of those seeking their soul , and their carcase hath been for food to the fowl of the heavens , and to the beast of the earth . ylt @Jeremiah:34:21 @'And Zedekiah king of Judah , and his heads , I give into the hand of their enemies , and into the hand of those seeking their soul , and into the hand of the forces of the king of Babylon , that are going up from off you . ylt @Jeremiah:34:22 @Lo , I am commanding -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and have brought them back unto this city , and they have fought against it , and captured it , and burned it with fire , and the cities of Judah I do make a desolation -- without inhabitant .'

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