1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,2 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:3 And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.4 But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said about you: Death will not come to you by the sword:5 You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.6 Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,7 When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.8 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;9 That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:10 And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.11 But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.12 For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,13 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,14 At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.15 And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:16 But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.17 And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,19 The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,20 Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.21 And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.22 See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.

1 Verbum quod factum est ad Jeremiam a Domino quando Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis, et omnis exercitus ejus, universaque regna terr, qu erant sub potestate manus ejus, et omnes populi, bellabant contra Jerusalem, et contra omnes urbes ejus, dicens : 2 Hc dicit Dominus Deus Isral : Vade, et loquere ad Sedeciam regem Juda, et dices ad eum : Hc dicit Dominus : Ecce ego tradam civitatem hanc in manus regis Babylonis, et succendet eam igni : 3 et tu non effugies de manu ejus, sed comprehensione capieris, et in manu ejus traderis : et oculi tui oculos regis Babylonis videbunt, et os ejus cum ore tuo loquetur, et Babylonem introibis. 4 Attamen audi verbum Domini, Sedecia, rex Juda : Hc dicit Dominus ad te : Non morieris in gladio, 5 sed in pace morieris : et secundum combustiones patrum tuorum, regum priorum qui fuerunt ante te, sic comburent te : et v domine, plangent te : quia verbum ego locutus sum, dicit Dominus. 6 Et locutus est Jeremias propheta ad Sedeciam regem Juda universa verba hc in Jerusalem. 7 Et exercitus regis Babylonis pugnabat contra Jerusalem, et contra omnes civitates Juda qu reliqu erant, contra Lachis et contra Azecha : h enim supererant de civitatibus Juda, urbes munit.8 Verbum quod factum est ad Jeremiam a Domino, postquam percussit rex Sedecias fdus cum omni populo in Jerusalem, prdicans, 9 ut dimitteret unusquisque servum suum et unusquisque ancillam suam, Hebrum et Hebram, liberos, et nequaquam dominarentur eis, id est, in Judo et fratre suo. 10 Audierunt ergo omnes principes et universus populus, qui inierant pactum ut dimitteret unusquisque servum suum et unusquisque ancillam suam liberos, et ultra non dominarentur eis : audierunt igitur, et dimiserunt. 11 Et conversi sunt deinceps : et retraxerunt servos et ancillas suas quos dimiserant liberos, et subjugaverunt in famulos et famulas. 12 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jeremiam a Domino, dicens : 13 Hc dicit Dominus Deus Isral : Ego percussi fdus cum patribus vestris in die qua eduxi eos de terra gypti, de domo servitutis, dicens : 14 Cum completi fuerint septem anni, dimittat unusquisque fratrem suum Hebrum, qui venditus est ei : et serviet tibi sex annis, et dimittes eum a te liberum : et non audierunt patres vestri me, nec inclinaverunt aurem suam. 15 Et conversi estis vos hodie, et fecistis quod rectum est in oculis meis, ut prdicaretis libertatem unusquisque ad amicum suum : et inistis pactum in conspectu meo, in domo in qua invocatum est nomen meum super eam : 16 et reversi estis, et commaculastis nomen meum, et reduxistis unusquisque servum suum et unusquisque ancillam suam, quos dimiseratis ut essent liberi et su potestatis, et subjugastis eos ut sint vobis servi et ancill. 17 Propterea hc dicit Dominus : Vos non audistis me, ut prdicaretis libertatem unusquisque fratri suo et unusquisque amico suo : ecce ego prdico vobis libertatem, ait Dominus, ad gladium, ad pestem, et ad famem, et dabo vos in commotionem cunctis regnis terr. 18 Et dabo viros qui prvaricantur fdus meum, et non observaverunt verba fderis quibus assensi sunt in conspectu meo, vitulum quem conciderunt in duas partes, et transierunt inter divisiones ejus, 19 principes Juda et principes Jerusalem, eunuchi et sacerdotes, et omnis populus terr, qui transierunt inter divisiones vituli : 20 et dabo eos in manus inimicorum suorum, et in manus qurentium animam eorum, et erit morticinum eorum in escam volatilibus cli et bestiis terr. 21 Et Sedeciam regem Juda, et principes ejus, dabo in manus inimicorum suorum, et in manus qurentium animas eorum, et in manus exercituum regis Babylonis, qui recesserunt a vobis. 22 Ecce ego prcipio, dicit Dominus, et reducam eos in civitatem hanc, et prliabuntur adversus eam, et capient eam, et incendent igni : et civitates Juda dabo in solitudinem, eo quod non sit habitator.