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Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 34

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Chapter 34 of Jeremiah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ The word that occurred to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon1 and all his military force2 and all the kingdoms of the earth, the dominion under his hand,3 and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and against all her cities,4 saying:
  2. ¶ “This is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said, ‘Go,[a] and you must say to Zed·e·kiʹah the king of Judah,5 yes, you must say to him: “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon,6 and he must burn it with fire.7
  3. And you yourself will not escape out of his hand, because you will without fail be caught and into his hand you will be given.8 And your own eyes will see even the eyes of the king of Babylon,9 and his own mouth will speak even with your mouth, and to Babylon you will come.’
  4. However, hear the word of Jehovah, O Zed·e·kiʹah king of Judah,10 ‘This is what Jehovah has said concerning you: “You will not die by the sword.
  5. In peace you will die;11 and as with the burnings for your fathers, the former kings who happened to be prior to you,12 so they will make a burning13 for you, and ‘Alas, O master!’14 is what they will say in lament15 for you, for ‘I myself have spoken the very word,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.”’”’”
  6. ¶ And Jeremiah the prophet proceeded to speak to Zed·e·kiʹah the king of Judah all these words16 in Jerusalem,
  7. when the military forces of the king of Babylon were fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left remaining,17 against Laʹchish18 and against A·zeʹkah;19 for they, the fortified cities,20 were the ones that remained over among the cities of Judah.21
  8. ¶ The word that occurred to Jeremiah from Jehovah after King Zed·e·kiʹah concluded a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim to them liberty,[b]22
  9. to let each one his manservant and each one his maidservant, Hebrew23 man and Hebrew woman, go free, in order not to use them as servants, that is, a Jew, who is his brother.24
  10. So all the princes25 obeyed, and all the people who had entered into the covenant to let each one his manservant and each one his maidservant go free, in order to use them no more as servants, and they proceeded to obey and to let [them] go.26
  11. But they turned about27 after that and began to bring back the menservants and the maidservants whom they had let go free, and they went subjecting them as menservants and as maidservants.28
  12. Consequently the word of Jehovah occurred to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:
  13. ¶ “This is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said, ‘I myself concluded a covenant with YOUR forefathers29 in the day of my bringing them out of the land of Egypt,30 out of the house of servants,[c]31 saying:
  14. “At the end of seven[d] years YOU men should let go each one his brother,32 a Hebrew man,33 who came to be sold to you34 and who has served you six years; and you must let him go free from being with you.” But YOUR forefathers did not listen to me, neither did they incline their ear.35
  15. And YOU yourselves turn around today and do what is upright in my eyes in proclaiming liberty each one to his companion, and YOU conclude a covenant before me36 in the house upon which my name has been called.37
  16. Then YOU turn back38 and profane my name39 and bring back each one his manservant and each one his maidservant, whom YOU let go free agreeably to their soul,[e] and YOU subject them to become YOUR menservants and maidservants.’40
  17. ¶ “Therefore this is what Jehovah has said, ‘YOU yourselves have not obeyed me in keeping on proclaiming liberty41 each one to his brother and each one to his companion. Here I am proclaiming to YOU a liberty,’42 is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘to the sword,43 to the pestilence44 and to the famine,45 and I shall certainly give YOU for a quaking to all the kingdoms of the earth.46
  18. And I will give the men[f] sidestepping my covenant,47 in that they did not carry out the words of the covenant that they concluded[g] before me [with] the calf that they cut in two48 that they might pass between its pieces;49
  19. [namely,] the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem,50 the court officials and the priests and all the people of the land[h] who went passing between the pieces of the calf—
  20. yes, I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those seeking for their soul;51 and their dead bodies must become food for the flying creatures of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.52
  21. And Zed·e·kiʹah the king of Judah53 and his princes I shall give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those seeking for their soul and into the hand of the military forces of the king of Babylon54 who are withdrawing from against YOU men.’55
  22. ¶ “‘Here I am commanding,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and I shall certainly bring them back to this city,56 and they must fight against it and capture it and burn it with fire;57 and the cities of Judah I shall make a desolate waste without an inhabitant.’”58

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ See 2:2 ftn, “Go.”
  2. ^ Or, “release.” Heb., derohrʹ.
  3. ^ Or, “slaves.”
  4. ^ “Seven,” MTSyVg; LXX, “six.”
  5. ^ Or, “where they wish.” Lit., “free to their soul.” Compare De 21:14 ftn.
  6. ^ “The men.” Heb., ha·ʼana·shimʹ, pl. of ʼish.
  7. ^ Lit., “they cut.” Heb., kor·thuʹ; the same as for cutting the calf.
  8. ^ “The people of the land.” Heb., ʽam ha·ʼaʹrets.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Ki 25:1; Je 32:2
  2. ^ Je 39:1; 52:4
  3. ^ Je 27:6
  4. ^ De 28:52; Je 1:15
  5. ^ 2Ch 36:11; Je 37:1
  6. ^ Je 21:10; 32:28
  7. ^ Je 32:29; 37:8; 38:23; 39:8
  8. ^ Je 37:17; 39:5; 52:8
  9. ^ 2Ki 25:6; Je 32:4; Eze 12:13
  10. ^ 2Ch 36:10
  11. ^ Eze 17:16
  12. ^ 2Ch 21:19
  13. ^ 2Ch 16:14
  14. ^ Je 22:18
  15. ^ La 4:20; Mc 2:4
  16. ^ 1Sa 3:18; 1Ki 21:19; Ac 20:27
  17. ^ De 28:52; Je 4:5
  18. ^ 2Ki 19:8; Mc 1:13
  19. ^ Jos 15:35
  20. ^ 2Ki 18:13; 2Ch 11:5
  21. ^ 2Ch 27:4
  22. ^ Ex 21:2; Le 25:10; De 15:12
  23. ^ Ge 14:13; 2Co 11:22
  24. ^ Le 25:39; Ne 5:8
  25. ^ Je 26:10; 36:12
  26. ^ Le 25:39
  27. ^ Ho 6:4
  28. ^ Le 25:42; Ps 36:3
  29. ^ Ex 24:7; De 5:2
  30. ^ De 7:8; 24:18
  31. ^ Ex 13:3
  32. ^ Ex 21:2; Le 25:41
  33. ^ De 15:12
  34. ^ Le 25:39
  35. ^ 1Sa 8:8; 2Ki 17:14; Ne 9:29; Je 7:26; Zc 7:12
  36. ^ Ps 119:106
  37. ^ 2Ki 21:4
  38. ^ Ec 5:5; Eze 17:16; Mt 5:37
  39. ^ Le 19:12; Eze 20:39
  40. ^ Je 34:11
  41. ^ Ex 21:2; Le 25:10; De 15:12
  42. ^ Le 26:34; Ga 6:7; Jm 2:13
  43. ^ Je 15:2
  44. ^ Le 26:25; Je 21:7; Eze 14:19
  45. ^ De 28:53; 2Ki 25:3; Je 24:10; 32:24
  46. ^ De 28:65; Je 15:4; 29:18
  47. ^ De 17:2; Jos 7:11; Eze 17:16; Ho 6:7
  48. ^ Ge 15:10
  49. ^ Ge 15:17
  50. ^ Je 25:18; Da 9:6
  51. ^ De 7:10; Je 4:30
  52. ^ De 28:26; 1Ki 14:11; Ps 79:2; Je 7:33; 16:4; 19:7
  53. ^ 2Ki 24:18
  54. ^ 2Ki 25:6; Je 39:6; 52:10; La 4:20
  55. ^ Je 37:5
  56. ^ 2Ch 36:17; Je 39:1
  57. ^ 2Ki 25:9; Je 32:29; 38:23; 39:8; 52:13
  58. ^ Le 26:33; De 29:28; Je 9:11; 44:2; Mc 7:13

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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