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1 The word which came unto Jeremi­ah from the LORD, when Neb­uchad­nez­zar king of Baby­lon, and all his army, and all the king­doms of the earth of his do­min­ion, 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 Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Be­hold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Baby­lon, and he shall burn it with fire: 3 And thou shalt not es­cape out of his hand, but shalt sure­ly be tak­en, and de­liv­ered into his hand; and thine eyes shall be­hold the eyes of the king of Baby­lon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Baby­lon. 4 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: 5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burn­ings of thy fa­thers, the for­mer kings which were be­fore thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pro­nounced the word, saith the LORD. 6 Then Jeremi­ah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah in Jerusalem, 7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Ju­dah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these de­fenced cities re­mained of the cities of Ju­dah. 8 This is the word that came unto Jeremi­ah from the LORD, af­ter that the king Zedeki­ah had made a covenant with all the peo­ple which were at Jerusalem, to pro­claim lib­er­ty unto them; 9 That ev­ery man should let his manser­vant, and ev­ery man his maid­ser­vant, being an He­brew or an He­brewess, go free; that none should serve him­self of them, ­to wit, of a Jew his broth­er. 10 Now when all the princes, and all the peo­ple, which had en­tered into the covenant, heard that ev­ery one should let his manser­vant, and ev­ery one his maid­ser­vant, go free, that none should serve them­selves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go. 11 But af­ter­ward they turned, and caused the ser­vants and the hand­maids, whom they had let go free, to re­turn, and brought them into sub­jec­tion for ser­vants and for hand­maids. 12 There­fore the word of the LORD came to Jeremi­ah 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 forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bond­men, say­ing, 14 At the end of sev­en years let ye go ev­ery man his broth­er an He­brew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fa­thers hear­kened not unto me, nei­ther in­clined their ear. 15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in pro­claim­ing lib­er­ty ev­ery man to his neigh­bour; and ye had made a covenant be­fore me in the house which is called by my name: 16 But ye turned and pol­lut­ed my name, and caused ev­ery man his ser­vant, and ev­ery man his hand­maid, whom ye had set at lib­er­ty at their plea­sure, to re­turn, and brought them into sub­jec­tion, to be unto you for ser­vants and for hand­maids. 17 There­fore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hear­kened unto me, in pro­claim­ing lib­er­ty, ev­ery one to his broth­er, and ev­ery man to his neigh­bour: be­hold, I pro­claim a lib­er­ty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pesti­lence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be re­moved into all the king­doms of the earth. 18 And I will give the men that have trans­gressed my covenant, which have not per­formed the words of the covenant which they had made be­fore me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed be­tween the parts there­of, 19 The princes of Ju­dah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eu­nuchs, and the priests, and all the peo­ple of the land, which passed be­tween the parts of the calf; 20 I will even give them into the hand of their en­e­mies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bod­ies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heav­en, and to the beasts of the earth. 21 And Zedeki­ah king of Ju­dah and his princes will I give into the hand of their en­e­mies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you. 22 Be­hold, I will com­mand, saith the LORD, and cause them to re­turn to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Ju­dah a des­o­la­tion with­out an in­hab­i­tant.