WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.180 Chapter 34. 00:02.140 --> 00:06.100 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of 00:06.100 --> 00:09.560 Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, 00:09.840 --> 00:13.220 and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities 00:13.220 --> 00:16.160 thereof, saying, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel. 00:16.860 --> 00:20.720 Go and speak to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord, 00:21.180 --> 00:24.940 Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall 00:24.940 --> 00:25.760 burn it with fire. 00:26.320 --> 00:30.160 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken and delivered 00:30.160 --> 00:30.940 into his hand. 00:31.400 --> 00:34.740 And thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak 00:34.740 --> 00:37.120 with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. 00:37.880 --> 00:40.220 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah. 00:40.880 --> 00:41.920 Thus saith the Lord of thee. 00:42.640 --> 00:45.460 Thou shalt not die by the sword, but thou shalt die in peace. 00:45.800 --> 00:48.880 And with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings, which were before thee, 00:49.260 --> 00:50.720 so shall they burn odours for thee. 00:51.160 --> 00:54.820 And they will lament thee, saying, Our Lord, for I have pronounced the word, 00:54.980 --> 00:55.500 saith the Lord. 00:55.500 --> 00:59.560 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah, king of Judah, 00:59.640 --> 01:03.780 in Jerusalem, when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against 01:03.780 --> 01:07.340 all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Hezekiah. 01:07.780 --> 01:10.100 For these defence cities remained of the cities of Judah. 01:10.880 --> 01:13.140 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord. 01:13.840 --> 01:17.100 After that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at 01:17.100 --> 01:21.260 Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them, that every man should let his manservant 01:21.260 --> 01:24.340 and every man his maidservant, being in Hebrew or in Hebrewess, 01:24.540 --> 01:24.940 go free. 01:25.500 --> 01:29.040 That none should serve himself of them, to wit of a Jew his brother. 01:29.900 --> 01:32.520 Now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant 01:32.520 --> 01:36.380 heard that every one should let his manservant and every one his maidservant 01:36.380 --> 01:40.720 go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed and let 01:40.720 --> 01:41.080 them go. 01:41.860 --> 01:44.780 But afterward they turned and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had 01:44.780 --> 01:48.660 let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for 01:48.660 --> 01:49.200 handmaids. 01:49.960 --> 01:53.000 Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 01:53.380 --> 01:54.980 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel. 01:55.500 --> 01:59.260 I made a covenant with your fathers in the day, that I brought them forth out of the 01:59.260 --> 02:03.520 land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, At the end of seven years 02:03.520 --> 02:07.500 let ye go every man his brother in Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee. 02:07.920 --> 02:11.560 And when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee. 02:12.140 --> 02:15.300 But your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear. 02:16.380 --> 02:20.460 And ye were now turned and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every 02:20.460 --> 02:21.300 man to his neighbour. 02:21.900 --> 02:25.060 And ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name, 02:25.060 --> 02:28.720 but ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, 02:29.020 --> 02:32.200 and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure to 02:32.200 --> 02:35.440 return, and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants of a 02:35.440 --> 02:36.120 handmaid's. 02:36.840 --> 02:40.180 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ye have not hearkened unto me in 02:40.180 --> 02:43.640 proclaiming liberty every one to his brother and every man to his neighbour. 02:44.020 --> 02:48.420 Behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the 02:48.420 --> 02:49.480 pestilence, and to the famine. 02:49.880 --> 02:52.820 And I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 02:52.820 --> 02:56.360 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which has not 02:56.360 --> 03:00.120 performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the 03:00.120 --> 03:04.400 calf in twain, and pass between the parts thereof, the princes of Judah and the 03:04.400 --> 03:08.600 princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests, and all the people of the land 03:08.600 --> 03:10.300 which pass between the parts of the calf. 03:11.300 --> 03:14.540 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them 03:14.540 --> 03:15.420 that seek their life. 03:15.660 --> 03:18.900 And their dead bodies shall be for meat, unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the 03:18.900 --> 03:19.720 beasts of the earth. 03:20.300 --> 03:23.220 And said Achaia king of Judah and his princes, will I give into the hand of 03:23.220 --> 03:27.000 their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of 03:27.000 --> 03:29.260 the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you. 03:30.080 --> 03:33.800 Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to their city. 03:34.320 --> 03:36.960 And they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. 03:37.760 --> 03:41.400 And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.