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chapter 34
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The
word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, (when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,
and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth, that were under the power
of his hand, and all the people fought against Jerusalem and against all the
cities thereof,) saying:
2 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak
to Sedecias king of Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will
deliver this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it
with fire.
3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand: but thou
shalt surely be taken, and thou shalt be delivered into his hand: and thy eyes
shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy
mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of
Juda: Thus saith the Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword.
5 But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the
burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they
burn thee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have spoken
the word, saith the Lord.
6 And Jeremias the prophet spoke all these words to
Sedecias the king of Juda in Jerusalem.
7 And the army of the king of Babylon fought against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda that were left, against Lachis,
and against Azecha: for these remained of the cities of Juda, fenced cities.
8 The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after
that king Sedecias had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem making
a proclamation:
9 That every man should let his manservant, and every
man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that
they should not lord it over them, to wit, over the Jews their brethren.
10 And all the princes, and all the people who entered
into the covenant, heard that every man should let his manservant, and every
man his maidservant go free, and should no more have dominion over them: and
they obeyed, and let them go free.
11 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.
12 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the
Lord, saying:
13 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, out of the house of bondage, saying:
14 At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his
brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six
years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not
hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my
covenant, and have not performed the words of the covenant which they agreed to
in my presence, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts
thereof:
19 The princes of Juda, and the princes of Jerusalem,
the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land that passed
between the parts of the calf:
20 And I will give them into the hands of their
enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their life : and their dead
bodies shall be for meat to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the
earth.
21 And Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, I
will give into the hands of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek
their lives, and into the hands of the armies of the king of Babylon, which are
gone from you.
22 Behold I will command, saith the Lord, and I will
bring them again to this city, and they shall fight against it, and take it,
and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Juda a desolation, without
an inhabitant.
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