Jeremiah 34:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ but ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But then you turned around and defiled My name; each of you caused to return to you your servants, male and female, whom you had set free as they might desire; and you brought them into subjection again to be your slaves.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But then you went back on your word and made my name impure; each of you reclaimed the men and women you had set free and forced them to be your slaves again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But now you have turned back, and you have stained my name. For you have led back again, each one his man servant, and each one his woman servant, whom you had released so that they would be free and under their own authority. And you have subjugated them, so that they would be your servants and handmaids."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And you are fallen back and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, whom you had let go free and set at liberty: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.

Jeremiah 34:16 Cross References

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Jeremiah 34:11

But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way to save his life;

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.

Ezekiel 20:39

“As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 39:7

“And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let my holy name be profaned any more; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

Leviticus 19:12

And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Malachi 1:12

But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised.

Malachi 1:7

By offering polluted food upon my altar. And you say, ‘How have we polluted it?’ By thinking that the Lord's table may be despised.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night.