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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 34:17 - 34:17
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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 (Mat 7:2; Mat 18:32, Mat 18:33; Gal 6:7; Jam 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 (Psa 121:3), which is real “liberty” (Psa 119:45; Joh 8:36; 2Co 3:17), only to pass under the terrible bondage of other taskmasters, the “sword,” etc.
to be removed - The Hebrew expresses agitation (see on Jer 15:4). Compare Deu 28:25, Deu 28:48, Deu 28:64, Deu 28:65, as to the restless agitation of the Jews in their ceaseless removals from place to place in their dispersion.