Verse 20
Jeremiah 34:20
Bible in Basic English
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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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/נָתַתִּ֤י אוֹתָ/ם֙ בְּ/יַ֣ד אֹֽיְבֵי/הֶ֔ם וּ/בְ/יַ֖ד מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י נַפְשָׁ֑/ם וְ/הָיְתָ֤ה נִבְלָתָ/ם֙ לְ/מַֽאֲכָ֔ל לְ/ע֥וֹף הַ/שָּׁמַ֖יִם וּ/לְ/בֶהֱמַ֥ת הָ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.
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Chapter 34 Context
1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his arm...
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The Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what...
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And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you...
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4
But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said abou...
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5
You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kin...
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6
Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
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When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Jud...
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8
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all th...
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9
That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one...
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10
And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every on...
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11
But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and pu...
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12
For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
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13
The Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day whe...
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14
At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become your...
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15
And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking...
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16
But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his...
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And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loo...
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18
And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of...
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19
The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the pe...
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20
Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have design...
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And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the...
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See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war...
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