1 This word came to Jeremiah from the LORD while Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his armies and the earth's kingdoms subject to him, as well as the other peoples, were all attacking Jerusalem and all her cities:
2 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him: Thus says the LORD: I am handing this city over to the king of Babylon; he will destroy it with fire.
3 Neither shall you escape his hand; rather you will be captured and fall into his hands. You shall see the king of Babylon and speak to him face to face. Then you shall be taken to Babylon.
4 But if you obey the word of the LORD, Zedekiah, king of Judah, then, says the LORD to you, you shall not die by the sword.
5 You shall die in peace, and they will lament you as their lord, and burn spices for your burial as they did for your fathers, the kings who preceded you from the first; it is I who make this promise, says the LORD.
6 The prophet Jeremiah told all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
7 while the armies of the king of Babylon were attacking Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah, Lachish, and Azekah, since these alone were left of the fortified cities of Judah.
8 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem to issue an edict of emancipation.
9 Everyone was to free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should hold a man of Judah, his brother, in slavery.
10 All the princes and the others who entered the agreement consented to set free their male and female servants, so that they should be slaves no longer. But though they agreed and freed them,
11 afterward they took back their male and female slaves whom they had set free and again forced them into service.
12 Then this word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
13 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: The day I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the place where they were slaves, I made this covenant with them:
14 Every seventh year each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you; six years he shall serve you, but then you shall let him go free. Your fathers, however, did not heed me or obey me.
15 Today you indeed repented and did what is right in my eyes by proclaiming the emancipation of your brethren and making an agreement before me in the house that is named after me.
16 But then you changed your mind and profaned my name by taking back your male and female slaves to whom you had given their freedom; you forced them once more into slavery.
17 Therefore, thus says the LORD: You did not obey me by proclaiming your neighbors and kinsmen free. I now proclaim you free, says the LORD, for the sword, famine, and pestilence. I will make you an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 The men who violated my covenant and did not observe the terms of the agreement which they made before me, I will make like the calf which they cut in two, between whose two parts they passed.
19 The princes of Judah and of Jerusalem, the courtiers, the priests, and the common people, who passed between the parts of the calf,
20 I will hand over, all of them, to their enemies, to those who seek their lives: their corpses shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.
21 Zedekiah, too, king of Judah, and his princes, I will hand over to their enemies, to those who seek their lives, to the soldiers of the king of Babylon who have at present withdrawn from you.
22 I will give the command, says the LORD, and bring them back to this city. They shall attack and capture it, and destroy it with fire; the cities of Judah I will turn into a desert where no man dwells.
Versículos relacionados com Jeremiah, 34:
Jeremiah 34 describes God's message to King Zedekiah and the leaders of Judah to free their Hebrew slaves according to God's law. The chapter also shows their disobedience and the consequent divine punishment. Here are five verses related to the topics addressed in Jeremiah 34:
Leviticus 25:39-40: "If your brother impoverishes and sells some part of his possession, then he who has the power to rescue what his brother has sold, do so. And if the man has no one to rescue. But he himself reaches a lot to the ransom, "this verse is part of God's laws on slave liberation and the restitution of properties. These laws were violated by Judah's leaders in Jeremiah 34.
Deuteronomy 15:12-13: "When your Hebrew brother or your sister Hebrea sells to you, six years will serve, but by the seventh year you will say the lining." This is another example of God's laws on the liberation of slaves, and the need to respect them. These laws were violated by Judah's leaders in Jeremiah 34.
Deuteronomy 28:48: "Therefore, thou shalt serve your enemies that the Lord will send against you, hungry, and thirst, and with nudity, and lacking everything; and over your neck there will be an iron yoke until you will has destroyed. " This verse describes the consequence of disobedience to God's laws, such as the violation of laws on the liberation of slaves in Jeremiah 34.
Jeremiah 22:13: "Woe to him who builds his home with injustice, and his rooms without right, who serves the service of his neighbor without remunerating him, and does not give him the salary of his work." This verse is similar to the message of Jeremiah 34, for it speaks of those who exploit others without paying fair wages, thus violating the laws of God.
Jeremiah 7:5-6: "But your paths and your works are really amended, you are very much to perform justice between a man and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the foreigner, and the orphan, and the widow, nor spill blood Innocent in this place, not even walking after other gods for your own evil, "this verse is part of the general message of Jeremiah, which is the need to obey the laws of God and do what is just and correct. This includes the need to free the Hebrew slaves, as described in Jeremiah 34.
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