¹⁰ Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty^(A) throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee^(B) for you; each of you is to return to your family property^(C) and to your own clan.

Freedom for Slaves

⁸ The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people^(A) in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom^(B) for the slaves.

¹⁵ Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people.^(A) You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.^{(B) 16} But now you have turned around^(C) and profaned^(D) my name; each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your slaves again.

¹⁷ “Therefore this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you,^(E) declares the Lord—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague^(F) and famine.^(G) I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.^(H)