34:1 The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
LORD,
when
Nebuchadnezzar
king
of
Babylon
and
all
his
army
and
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
under
his
dominion
and
all
the
peoples
were
fighting
against
Jerusalem
and
all
of
its
cities:
34:2 "Thus
says
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel:
Go
and
speak
to
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
and
say
to
him,
'Thus
says
the
LORD:
Behold,
I
am
giving
this
city
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
he
shall
burn
it
with
fire.
34:3 You
shall
not
escape
from
his
hand
but
shall
surely
be
captured
and
delivered
into
his
hand.
You
shall
see
the
king
of
Babylon
eye
to
eye
and
speak
with
him
face
to
face.
And
you
shall
go
to
Babylon.'
34:4 Yet
hear
the
word
of
the
LORD,
O
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah!
Thus
says
the
LORD
concerning
you:
'You
shall
not
die
by
the
sword.
34:5 You
shall
die
in
peace.
And
as
spices
were
burned
for
your
fathers,
the
former
kings
who
were
before
you,
so
people
shall
burn
spices
for
you
and
lament
for
you,
saying,
"Alas,
lord!"'
For
I
have
spoken
the
word,
declares
the
LORD."
34:6 Then
Jeremiah
the
prophet
spoke
all
these
words
to
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah,
in
Jerusalem,
34:7 when
the
army
of
the
king
of
Babylon
was
fighting
against
Jerusalem
and
against
all
the
cities
of
Judah
that
were
left,
Lachish
and
Azekah,
for
these
were
the
only
fortified
cities
of
Judah
that
remained.
34:8 The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
LORD,
after
King
Zedekiah
had
made
a
covenant
with
all
the
people
in
Jerusalem
to
make
a
proclamation
of
liberty
to
them,
34:9 that
everyone
should
set
free
his
Hebrew
slaves,
male
and
female,
so
that
no
one
should
enslave
a
Jew,
his
brother.
34:10 And
they
obeyed,
all
the
officials
and
all
the
people
who
had
entered
into
the
covenant
that
everyone
would
set
free
his
slave,
male
or
female,
so
that
they
would
not
be
enslaved
again.
They
obeyed
and
set
them
free.
34:11 But
afterward
they
turned
around
and
took
back
the
male
and
female
slaves
they
had
set
free,
and
brought
them
into
subjection
as
slaves.
34:12 The
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
LORD:
34:13 "Thus
says
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel:
I
myself
made
a
covenant
with
your
fathers
when
I
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
out
of
the
house
of
bondage,
saying,
34:14 'At
the
end
of
seven
years
each
of
you
must
set
free
the
fellow
Hebrew
who
has
been
sold
to
you
and
has
served
you
six
years;
you
must
set
him
free
from
your
service.'
But
your
fathers
did
not
listen
to
me
or
incline
their
ears
to
me.
34:15 You
recently
repented
and
did
what
was
right
in
my
eyes
by
proclaiming
liberty,
each
to
his
neighbor,
and
you
made
a
covenant
before
me
in
the
house
that
is
called
by
my
name,
34:16 but
then
you
turned
around
and
profaned
my
name
when
each
of
you
took
back
his
male
and
female
slaves,
whom
you
had
set
free
according
to
their
desire,
and
you
brought
them
into
subjection
to
be
your
slaves.
34:17 "Therefore,
thus
says
the
LORD:
You
have
not
obeyed
me
by
proclaiming
liberty,
every
one
to
his
brother
and
to
his
neighbor;
behold,
I
proclaim
to
you
liberty
to
the
sword,
to
pestilence,
and
to
famine,
declares
the
LORD.
I
will
make
you
a
horror
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth.
34:18 And
the
men
who
transgressed
my
covenant
and
did
not
keep
the
terms
of
the
covenant
that
they
made
before
me,
I
will
make
them
like
the
calf
that
they
cut
in
two
and
passed
between
its
parts--
34:19 the
officials
of
Judah,
the
officials
of
Jerusalem,
the
eunuchs,
the
priests,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
who
passed
between
the
parts
of
the
calf.
34:20 And
I
will
give
them
into
the
hand
of
their
enemies
and
into
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
their
lives.
Their
dead
bodies
shall
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the
air
and
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
34:21 And
Zedekiah
king
of
Judah
and
his
officials
I
will
give
into
the
hand
of
their
enemies
and
into
the
hand
of
those
who
seek
their
lives,
into
the
hand
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
Babylon
which
has
withdrawn
from
you.
34:22 Behold,
I
will
command,
declares
the
LORD,
and
will
bring
them
back
to
this
city.
And
they
will
fight
against
it
and
take
it
and
burn
it
with
fire.
I
will
make
the
cities
of
Judah
a
desolation
without
inhabitant."