16 Yet you (A)turned and (B)profaned My name, and each person [a]took back his male servant and each his female servant whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your male and female servants.’

17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming [b]release, each one to his brother and each to his neighbor. Behold, I am (C)proclaiming a [c]release to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to the (D)sword, to the plague, and to the famine; and I will make you a (E)terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 18 I will give the people who have (F)violated My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they (G)cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—

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Notas al pie

  1. Jeremiah 34:16 Lit made his male servant return and
  2. Jeremiah 34:17 Or liberty
  3. Jeremiah 34:17 Or liberty

16 But now you have turned around(A) and profaned(B) 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,(C) declares the Lord—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague(D) and famine.(E) I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.(F) 18 Those who have violated my covenant(G) and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.(H)

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16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

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