Jeremiah 34:16-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ But now you have ·changed your minds [turned around]. You have ·shown you do not honor [profaned; dishonored] me. Each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free, and you have forced them to become your slaves again.

¹⁷ “So this is what the Lord says: You have not ·obeyed [listened to] me. You have not ·given freedom [proclaimed liberty/emancipation] to your fellow Hebrews, neither ·relatives [brothers] nor ·friends [neighbors]. But now I will ·give freedom [proclaim liberty/emancipation to you], says the Lord, to ·war [^Lthe sword], to ·terrible diseases [plague; pestilence], and to ·hunger [famine]. I will make you ·hated by [a horror to] all the kingdoms of the earth. ¹⁸ I will hand over the men who ·broke [transgressed] my ·agreement [covenant; treaty], who have not kept the ·promises [^Lterms of the covenant/treaty] they made before me. They cut a calf into two pieces before me and ·walked between [^Lpassed through] the pieces [^Can ancient oath ritual saying that if one broke the agreement they would die like the calf; Gen. 15:9–20].