Add parallel Print Page Options

18 As for those who have violated my covenant and refused to observe the terms of the covenant to which they agreed in my presence, I will treat them like the calf which they cut in two and then passed between its pieces.[a] 19 The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf 20 will be handed over to their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the animals of the earth.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 34:18 The calf . . . : the reference is to an ancient rite for ratifying an agreement (see Gen 15:9).