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All of you took back the slaves whom you had set free as they desired, and you forced them into slavery again. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/jeremiah/34-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/jeremiah/34-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/jeremiah/34-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/jeremiah/34.htm">Chapter 34</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/34-15.htm" title="Jeremiah 34:15">◄</a> Jeremiah 34:16 <a href="../jeremiah/34-17.htm" title="Jeremiah 34:17">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/34.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/jeremiah/34.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But then you changed your minds again and dishonored me. All of you took back the slaves whom you had set free as they desired, and you forced them into slavery again. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/34.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back your male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them again into subjection to be your slaves.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/34.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But then you again profaned my name by taking back your male and female slaves whom you had just set free for life; you forced them to become your slaves again.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/34.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his manservant, and every man his maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his manservant, and every man his maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.</p><p class="hdg">ye turned.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/34-11.htm">Jeremiah 34:11</a> But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their servants and their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought them into subjection as menservants and maidservants.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/15-11.htm">1 Samuel 15:11</a> It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and he cried unto the Lord all night.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/3-20.htm">Ezekiel 3:20</a> Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/18-24.htm">Ezekiel 18:24</a> But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-12.htm">Ezekiel 33:12,13</a> Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy people: The justice of the just shall not deliver him, in what day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what day soever he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be able to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/8-13.htm">Luke 8:13-15</a> Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away. . . . </p><p class="hdg">polluted.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7</a> Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-12.htm">Leviticus 19:12</a> Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/17-16.htm">Ezekiel 17:16-19</a> As I live, saith the Lord God: In the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he hath made void, and whose covenant he broke, even in the midst of Babylon shall he die. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/20-39.htm">Ezekiel 20:39</a> And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and with your idols;</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/39-7.htm">Ezekiel 39:7</a> And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, and my holy name shall be profaned no more: and the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/1-7.htm">Malachi 1:7,12</a> To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible. . . . </p><p class="hdg">and brought.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/18-28.htm">Matthew 18:28-34</a> But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/jeremiah/34.htm">Freedom for Hebrew Slaves</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>And you turned to day, and did that which was right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother: and you made a covenant in my sight, in the house upon which my name is invocated. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his manservant, and every man his maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.</span><span class="reftext">17</span>Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have not hearkened to me, in proclaiming liberty every man to his brother and every man to his friend: behold I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine: and I will cause you to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/20-7.htm">Exodus 20:7</a></span><br />Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-12.htm">Leviticus 19:12</a></span><br />Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_samuel/15-11.htm">1 Samuel 15:11</a></span><br />It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and he cried unto the Lord all night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/34-11.htm">Jeremiah 34:11</a></span><br />But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their servants and their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought them into subjection as menservants and maidservants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/3-20.htm">Ezekiel 3:20</a></span><br />Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/13-22.htm">Ezekiel 13:22</a></span><br />Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn, whom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his evil way, and live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/18-24.htm">Ezekiel 18:24</a></span><br />But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/34-11.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-27.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-11.htm">Female</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-14.htm">Free</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-23.htm">Handmaid</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-11.htm">Handmaids</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-15.htm">Liberty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-11.htm">Male</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-41.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-11.htm">Polluted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-4.htm">Profaned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-10.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-13.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-11.htm">Subjection</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-15.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/35-2.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/jeremiah/42-13.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/joel/2-29.htm">Female</a> <a href="/jeremiah/37-4.htm">Free</a> <a href="/luke/1-38.htm">Handmaid</a> <a href="/joel/2-29.htm">Handmaids</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-17.htm">Liberty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-8.htm">Male</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-38.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-2.htm">Polluted</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-2.htm">Profaned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-7.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-19.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-14.htm">Subjection</a> <a href="/jeremiah/36-3.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/jeremiah/34-16.htm">Jeremiah 34:16 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: according again and around back be become brought But desire each female forced free go had has have his into male man my name now of profaned servant servants servants' set slaves subjection taken the their them they to took turned where whom wished Yet you your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/34-16.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 34:16 But you turned and profaned my name (Jer.) 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