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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 34
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Jeremias the prophet spoke all these words to Sedecias
the king of Juda in Jerusalem.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the Lord,
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, out of the house of bondage, saying:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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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