¹⁵ Then you ^[a]recently turned and did what was right in My sight—every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you ^(A)made a covenant before Me ^(B)in the house which is called by My name.

Treacherous Treatment of Slaves

⁸ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem to proclaim ^(A)liberty to them:

³ Then the king ^(A)stood by a pillar and made a ^(B)covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant.

^10 (A)and then come and stand before Me in this house ^(B)which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’? ¹¹ Has ^(C)this house, which is called by My name, become a ^(D)den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.

²⁹ these joined with their brethren, their nobles, ^(A)and entered into a curse and an oath ^(B)to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

¹⁰ Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should set free his male and female slaves, that no one should keep them in bondage anymore, they obeyed and let them go. ¹¹ But afterward they changed their minds and made the male and female slaves return, whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection as male and female slaves.

³⁴ But they ^(A)set their abominations in ^[a]the house which is called by My name, to defile it.