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and, Oh, lord, they lament for you, for the word I have spoken—a declaration of YHWH.”<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Jeremiah the prophet speaks all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and the forces of the king of Babylon are fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that are left—against Lachish, and against Azekah, for these have been left among the cities of Judah, cities of fortresses.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The word that has been to Jeremiah from YHWH, after the making of a covenant by King Zedekiah with all the people who [are] in Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>to each send out his manservant, and each his maidservant—the Hebrew and the Hebrewess—free, so as not to lay service on them—on any Jew, a brother, a man; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and all the heads listen, and all the people who have come into the covenant to each send forth his manservant and each his maidservant free, so as not to lay service on them anymore, indeed, they listen, and send them away; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and they turn afterward, and cause the menservants and the maidservants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for menservants and for maidservants.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day of My bringing them forth from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants, saying, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>At the end of seven years you each send forth his brother, the Hebrew, who is sold to you, and has served you six years, indeed, you have sent him forth from you free: and your fathers did not listen to Me, nor inclined their ear. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And today you turn back and you do that which is right in My eyes, to each proclaim liberty to his neighbor, and you make a covenant before Me in the house over which My Name is called. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And you turn back, and defile My Name, and you each cause his manservant and each his maidservant, whom he had sent forth free (at their pleasure), to return, and you subdue them to be for menservants and for maidservants to you.”<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore, thus said YHWH: “You have not listened to Me to proclaim freedom, each to his brother, and each to his neighbor; behold, I am proclaiming to you liberty,” a declaration of YHWH, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I have given you for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces— <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>heads of Judah, and heads of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land who had passed through between the pieces of the calf— <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>indeed, I have given them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and their carcass has been for food to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I give Zedekiah king of Judah and his heads into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and into the hand of the forces of the king of Babylon that are going up from off you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/34-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Behold, I am commanding,” a declaration of YHWH, “and have brought them back to this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and I make the cities of Judah a desolation—without inhabitant.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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