Jeremiah 34:12-16

The Voice

Eternal One: ¹³ I, the Eternal God of Israel, am reminding you that I made a covenant with your ancestors when I rescued them from slavery in the land of Egypt. I told them: ¹⁴ After six years of service, a fellow Hebrew slave must be freed from slavery in the seventh year.^[a] But your ancestors never took My directive seriously or obeyed Me. ¹⁵ Not long ago, you changed your mind and did what was right in My eyes: you set your kinsmen free from bondage. You even established a sacred covenant before Me in the house that bears My name. ¹⁶ But now you have reversed yourselves, turned around, and broken that covenant! You have defiled My name by forcing these men and women you freed back into slavery.