17 “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me (A)by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; (B)behold, I proclaim to you liberty (C)to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. (D)I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 18 And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of (E)the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like[a] (F)the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts— 19 the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, (G)the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 34:18 Hebrew lacks them like

17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you,(A) declares the Lord—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague(B) and famine.(C) I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.(D) 18 Those who have violated my covenant(E) and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.(F) 19 The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials,(G) the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf,

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