CHAP. XXXIV.
The prophet foretels that Sedecias
shall fall into the
hands of Nabuchodonosor:
God's sentence upon the
princes and people that had
broken his covenant.
1 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:
2 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.
3 And thou shalt not escape
out of his hand: but
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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.
4 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,
5 But thou shalt note 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.
6 And Jeremias the prophet
spoke all these words
to Sedecias the king of Juda
in Jerusalem.
7 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.
8 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:
9 That every man should
let his man-servant, and
every man his maid-servant,
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.
10 And all the princes,
and all the people who entered
into the covenant,
heard that every man should
let his man-servant, and
every man his maid-servant
go free, and should no more
have dominion over them:
and they obeyed, and let
them go free.
11 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 men-servants,
and maid-servants.
12 And the word of the
Lord came to Jeremias 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 out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of
bondage, saying:
14 At the end of seven
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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.
15 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.
16 And you are fallen
back, and have defiled my
name: and you have brought
back again every man his
man-servant, and every man
his maid-servant, whom you
had let go free, and set
at liberty: and you have
brought them into subjection
to be your servants and
handmaids.
17 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.
18 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:
19 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:
20 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.
21 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.
22 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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Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
