Jeremiah:34

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* The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , when Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , and all his army , and all the kingdoms of the country ruled by his power , and all the people , fought against Jerusalem , and against all its cities , saying , * Thus hath said the Lord , the God of Israel , Go and speak to Zedekiah the king of Judah , and say to him , Thus hath said the Lord , Behold , I will give up this city into the hand of the king of Babylon , that he may burn it with fire : * And thou thyself shalt not escape out of his hand ; but thou shalt surely be caught , and be delivered into his hand ; and thy eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon , and his mouth shall speak with thy mouth , and to Babylon shalt thou go . * Yet hear the word of the Lord , O Zedekiah king of Judah , Thus hath said the Lord respecting thee , Thou shalt not die by the sword : * In peace shalt thou die ; and as burnings were made for thy fathers , the former kings who were before thee , so shall they make burnings for thee ; and "Ah lord " shall they lament for thee ; for I have spoken the word , saith the Lord . * And Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Zedekiah the king of Judah all these words in Jerusalem , * When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem , and against all the cities of Judah that were left , against Lachish , and against ‘Azekah ; for these had been left of the cities of Judah as fortified cities . * The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem , to proclaim among themselves freedom ; * That every man should dismiss his man –servant , and every man his maid –servant , being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman , free ; so that no man among them should exact labor of a Jew , his brother . * And all the princes had hearkened , with all the people , who had entered into the covenant , that every one should dismiss his man –servant , and every one his maid –servant , free , that no one should exact labor of them any more : and they had obeyed , and dismissed them . * But they had turned afterward , and they had brought back the men –servants and the maid –servants whom they had dismissed as free , and had subjected them to become men –servants and maid –servants . * And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying , * Thus hath said the Lord , the God of Israel ,––I myself made a covenant with your fathers on the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondmen , saying , * At the end of seven years shall ye dismiss every man his brother the Hebrew , who may have been sold unto thee ; and when he hath served thee six years , then shalt thou dismiss him from thee ; but your fathers hearkened not unto me , and inclined not their ear . * And ye had turned this day , and done what is right in my eyes , to proclaim freedom every man to his neighbor ; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house over which my name is called ; * But ye have turned again , and profaned my name , and ye have brought back every man his man –servant , and every man his woman –servant , whom ye had dismissed as free at their pleasure , and have subjected them to be unto you for men –servants and for women –servants . * Therefore thus hath said the Lord , Ye indeed have not hearkened unto me , to proclaim freedom , every one to his brother , and every one to his neighbor : behold , I proclaim a freedom over you , saith the Lord , to the sword , to the pestilence , and to the famine ; and I will make you a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth . * And I will give up the men that have transgressed my covenant , who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they had made before me , at the calf which they cut in twain , and between the parts whereof they passed , * The princes of Judah , and the princes of Jerusalem , the court –servants , and the priests , and all the people of the land , who have passed between the parts of the calf ; * I will give them up into the hand of their enemies , and into the hand of those that seek their life ; and their dead bodies shall become food unto the fowls of the heavens , and to the beasts of the earth . * And Zedekiah the king of Judah and his princes will I give up into the hand of their enemies , and into the hand of those that seek their life , and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon , that are gone away from you . * Behold , I will command , speaketh the Lord , and I will bring them back to this city ; and they shall fight against it , and capture it , and burn it with fire : and the cities of Judah will I make a desert without an inhabitant .

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