“and thou shalt not escape out of his hand but thou 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…”
Jeremiah 34
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1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.
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2The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: "Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
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3And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.
4Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
“yet hear the word of the Lord. O Zedekiah the king of Judah thus saith the Lord of thee thou shalt not die by the sword”
5you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, 'Alas, O master!' For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD."
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6In Jerusalem, then, Jeremiah the prophet relayed all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah
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7as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.
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8After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
“the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them”
“This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. After that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with the people which were in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto them”
9that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
“that each man verse 9 should set free his male servant and each man his female servant a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman so that no one should keep them a Jew his brother in bondage.”
10So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
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11but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
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12Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
“the word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah from the Lord”
“The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord,”
13"This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:
“thus saith the Lord the God of Israel I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondman saying”
14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
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15Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
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16But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
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17Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
“Therefore thus saith the Lord you have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother and every man to his neighbor behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword and to the pestilence and…”
18And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
“"...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 pass between the parts thereof.".”
“And I will give to the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof.”
“I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two, and passed between these parts. It's”
19The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,
“the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem the eunuchs the priests and all the people of the land which passed between the parts of the calf.”
20I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
“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 for the fowls of the heaven the beasts of the earth”
21And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
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22Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
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