# Jeremiah 34

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/34

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all its cities, saying,
2. Thus says Yahweh, God of Israel: Go and say to Zedekiah king of Judah, and say to him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.
3. And you will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be seized and handed into his hand; your eyes will see the eyes of Babylon's king, and his mouth will speak to your mouth, and you will come to Babylon.
4. Yet hear the word of Yahweh, Zedekiah king of Judah; thus says Yahweh concerning you: You will not die by the sword.
5. You will die in peace, and just as with the burnings for your fathers the former kings who were before you, so they will burn for you, and they will lament you, crying "Ah, lord!", for I have spoken the word, declares Yahweh.
6. Jeremiah the prophet told Zedekiah, king of Judah, all these words in Jerusalem.
7. The army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and all the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah—for these alone were left as fortified cities among Judah's cities.
8. The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah cut a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them.
9. that every man release his male servant and every man his female servant, the Hebrew and the Hebrew woman, setting them free, so that no man enslave a Jew, his brother.
10. All the officials and all the people who had entered the covenant—to release each man his male servant and each his female servant free, so none would enslave them anymore—obeyed and released them.
11. But afterward they turned back and brought back the servants and the handmaids whom they had set free, and forced them into bondage and subjugated them as servants and handmaids.
12. Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
13. Thus says Yahweh, God of Israel: I cut a covenant with your fathers in the day I brought them out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves, saying,
14. At the end of seven years each shall release his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you shall send him free from you, but your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.
15. Today you turned and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming release to every man for his fellow, and you cut a covenant before me in the house on which my name is called.
16. But you turned back and profaned my name, bringing back each man's servant and each man's bondwoman whom you had set free for themselves, and subduing them to become your servants and bondwomen.
17. Therefore thus says Yahweh: You have not obeyed me in proclaiming liberty, each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim liberty to you, declares Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I will deliver you to dismay and horror among all the kingdoms of the earth.
18. I will deliver the men who violated my covenant, who did not fulfill its terms—the covenant they ratified before me when they cut the calf in two and passed between its pieces.
19. the chiefs of Judah and the chiefs of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf
20. I will give them into the hands of their enemies and into the hands of those seeking their lives, and their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth.
21. I will give Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his princes into their enemies' hands, into the hands of those seeking their lives, and into the hands of the army of Babylon's king who are departing from you.
22. Behold, I am commanding, declares Yahweh, and I will bring them back to this city; they will fight against it, capture it, and burn it with fire, and I will turn the cities of Judah into a desolation without inhabitant.

## Nearby chapters

[Jeremiah 33](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/33.md)
[Jeremiah 35](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/35.md)

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