Jeremiah 34:10-17

All the leaders and all the people made an agreement that everyone should free their slaves, men or women, and no longer keep them enslaved, so they set every slave free. But afterward, they went back on their word and forced the men and women whom they had set free back into slavery. Then YAHWEH spoke to Jeremiah, saying, “I, YAHWEH, God of Israel, made a covenant with your ancestors when I led them out of the house of bondage in Egypt. I said that every seventh year, each one of you is to free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. They may be your slave for six years, then you must give them their freedom. Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me and would not obey. You recently decided to obey me and did what pleases me by setting your Hebrew slaves completely free. You even went to the temple dedicated to me, and in my name, you made a covenant to set them free. But now you have broken your promise and dishonored my name by forcing your former slaves back into slavery. From those whom you once set free to live as they please, you have taken their freedom away again to please yourselves. “So, I, YAHWEH, say you have disobeyed me by failing to grant freedom to your fellow Jews. Very well then. I, YAHWEH, declare that I will give you freedom—the freedom to die by the sword, disease, and starvation. And I will make you a disgusting sight to every nation in the world.