Jeremiah 34:16-18

New King James Version

¹⁶ Then you turned around and ^(A)profaned My name, and every one of you brought back his male and female slaves, whom you had set at liberty, at their pleasure, and brought them back into subjection, to be your male and female slaves.’

¹⁷ “Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor. ^(B)Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the Lord—^(C)‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to ^(D)trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth. ¹⁸ And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when ^(E)they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it—