SEV Biblia, Chapter 34:17
Por tanto, así dijo el SEÑOR: Vosotros no me oísteis a mí en promulgar cada uno libertad a su hermano, y cada uno a su compañero: he aquí que yo os promulgo libertad, dijo el SEÑOR, a cuchillo y a pestilencia, y a hambre; y os pondré en remoción a todos los reinos de la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 34:17
Verse 17. I proclaim a liberty for you] Ye proclaimed liberty to your slaves, and afterward resumed your authority over them; and I had in consequence restrained the sword from cutting you off: but now I give liberty to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and to the captivity, to destroy and consume you, and enslave you: for ye shall be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth. The prophet loves to express the conformity between the crime and its punishment. You promised to give liberty to your enslaved brethren; I was pleased, and bound the sword in its sheath. You broke your promise, and brought them again into bondage; I gave liberty to the sword, pestilence, and famine, to destroy multitudes of you, and captivity to take the rest. Thus you are punished according to your crimes, and in the punishwent you may see the crime. Sword, pestilence, and famine are frequently joined together, as being often the effects of each other. The sword or war produces famine; famine, the pestilence.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Zedekiah's death at Babylon foretold. (Jer. 34:1-7) The Jews reprove for compelling their poor brethren to return to unlawful bondage. (Jer 34:8-22) Jer. 34:1-7 Zedekiah is told that the city shall be taken, and that he shall die a captive, but he shall die a natural death. It is better to live and die penitent in a prison, than to live and die impenitent in palace.
Jer. 34:8-22 A Jew should not be held in servitude above seven years This law they and their fathers had broken. And when there was some hope that the siege was raised, they forced the servants they ha released into their services again. Those who think to cheat God be dissembled repentance and partial reformation, put the greatest chea upon their own souls. This shows that liberty to sin, is really onl liberty to have the sorest judgments. It is just with God to disappoin expectations of mercy, when we disappoint the expectations of duty. An when reformation springs only from terror, it is seldom lasting. Solem vows thus entered into, profane the ordinances of God; and the mos forward to bind themselves by appeals to God, are commonly most read to break them. Let us look to our hearts, that our repentance may be real, and take care that the law of God regulates our conduct __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
לכן 3651 כה 3541 אמר 559 יהוה 3068 אתם 859 לא 3808 שׁמעתם 8085 אלי 413 לקרא 7121 דרור 1865 אישׁ 376 לאחיו 251 ואישׁ 376 לרעהו 7453 הנני 2005 קרא 7121 לכם דרור 1865 נאם 5002 יהוה 3068 אל 413 החרב 2719 אל 413 הדבר 1698 ואל 413 הרעב 7458 ונתתי 5414 אתכם 853 לזועה 2113 לכל 3605 ממלכות 4467 הארץ׃ 776
