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Breach of Covenant and Punishment for Oppression

Jeremiah 34:8-22

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Chapter 34
8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them. 9 to send away a man his male servant and a man his female servant, the Hebrew and the Hebrew woman, free, so as not to serve in them a Judahite his brother a man. 10 And all the chiefs and all the people who had entered into the covenant heard it—to send away each man his servant and each man his maidservant free so as not to serve in them anymore—and they heard and they sent away. 11 And they turned back afterward and subjugated the slaves and the handmaids whom they had sent free, and they subjugated them as slaves and handmaids. 12 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying: 13 The LORD God of Israel says: I made a covenant with your fathers on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves, saying: 14 At the end of seven years each man shall send away his Hebrew brother who has been sold to him and has served him six years, and you shall send him away free from you. And your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ear. 15 And today you turned back and did what was right in my eyes, to proclaim liberty, every man to his companion, and made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. 16 But you turned back and profaned my name, and you turned back—a man his male servant and a man his maidservant, whom you had sent free for their life, and you subdued them to be for you male servants and maidservants. 17 Therefore thus says the LORD: You did not listen to me to proclaim liberty, man to his brother and man to his neighbor; behold, I am proclaiming to you liberty—utterance of the LORD—to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you to horror to all the kingdoms of the land. 18 And I will give over the men, the Hebrews, the ones who passed through my covenant which they did not uphold—the words of the covenant which they made before the calf which they prepared for themselves—and they passed between its pieces. 19 the rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land, the ones passing between its two halves, the Golden Calf idol. 20 And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those seeking their nephesh, and their carcass will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth. 21 And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those seeking their nephesh and into the hand of the power of the king of Babel, the ones going up from upon you. 22 Behold, I command, says the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city and they will fight against it and capture it and burn it with fire; and the cities of Judah I will make a desolation, without inhabitant.