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34:1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,
34:2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
34:3 And thou shalt not escape out of his
hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold
the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou
shalt go to Babylon.
34:4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee,
Thou shalt not die by the sword:
34:5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the
burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn
odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the
word, saith the LORD.
34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in
Jerusalem,
34:7 When the king of Babylon's army fought
against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish,
and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
34:8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah
had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto
them;
34:9 That every man should let his manservant,
and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should
serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
34:10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant,
heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free,
that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
34:11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had
let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
34:12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
34:13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
34:14 At the end of seven years let ye go
every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served
thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto
me, neither inclined their ear.
34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every
man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by
my name:
34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and
caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at
their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants
and for handmaids.
34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming
liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a
liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I
will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,
which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when
they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
34:20 I will even give them into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall
be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of
Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.
34:22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and
they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the
cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
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