Jeremiah 34:17 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Jeremiah 34:17

15 Then you recently turned and did what was right in My sight—every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you ^amade a covenant before Me ^bin the house which is called by My name.

16 Then you turned around and ^aprofaned 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. ^aBehold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the Lord—^b‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to ^ctrouble 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 ^athey cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it—

19 the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the¹ eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—

20 I will ^agive them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their ^bdead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

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Jeremiah 34:17

not . . . proclaiming liberty—Though the Jews had ostensibly emancipated their bond-servants, they virtually did not do so by revoking the liberty which they had granted. God looks not to outward appearances, but to the sincere intention.

I proclaim a liberty—retribution answering to the offense (Matthew 7:2; Matthew 18:32-33; Galatians 6:7; James 2:13). The Jews who would not give liberty to their brethren shall themselves receive "a liberty" calamitous to them. God will manumit them from His happy and safe service (Psalms 121:3), which is real "liberty" (Psalms 119:45; John 8:36; II Corinthians 3:17), only to pass under the terrible bondage of other taskmasters, the "sword," etc.

to be removed—The Hebrew expresses agitation (see on Jeremiah 15:4). Compare Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 28:48, Deuteronomy 28:64-65, as to the restless agitation of the Jews in their ceaseless removals from place to place in their dispersion.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 34:17:

Jeremiah 33:26
Lamentations 1:3
Zechariah 11:9

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