25 So says YAHUVEH, If MY Covenant is not with day and night, and if I have
not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and earth,
26 then I also will reject the seed of Jacob, and MY servant David, not to take
of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will
bring back their captivity and have pity on them.
Jeremiah 34:8-22
8 The Word that was to Jeremiah from YAHUVEH after King Zedekiah had cut a
covenant with all the people in Jerusalem, to proclaim freedom to them,
9 that each man should release his male slave, and each man his female slave, if
a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, to go free, that not any should enslave a Jew, a
man, his brother among them.
10 And all the rulers obeyed, and all the people who had entered into the
covenant allowed them to go free, each man his male slave, and each man his
female slave; so that not any should enslave among them any more; and they
obeyed and let them go.
11 But afterward they turned and caused to return the male slaves and the female
slaves whom they sent away. And they subjected them for male slaves and for
female slaves.
12 For this reason the Word of YAHUVEH came to Jeremiah from YAHUVEH, saying,
13 So says YAHUVEH, the Elohim of Israel: I cut a covenant1 with your fathers in
the day I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery, saying,
14 At the end of seven years each man should let go his brother who is a Hebrew,
who has been sold to him. When he has served you six years, you shall let him go
free from you. But your fathers did not listen to Me nor stretch out their ear.
(Ex 21:1-2)
15 And you had turned today, and you did right in MY eyes, to call for freedom,
each man to his neighbor. And you cut a covenant before Me in the house on which
is called MY Name.
16 But you turned and profaned MY Name, and each man caused his male slave, and
each man his female slave, to return whom you had sent away according to their
desire. And you subjected them to be slaves and female slaves to you.
17 So YAHUVEH says this: You have not listened to Me, to call for liberty, each
man to his brother, and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I call for freedom to
you, says YAHUVEH: to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine. And I will
give you for a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 And I will give the men who have transgressed MY covenant, who have not stood
on the words of the covenant which they have cut with Me when they cut the calf
in two, and passed between its pieces2, (Ps 50:5, Ge 15:10)
19 the rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests,
and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf;
20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of
those seeking their life. And their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds
of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth.
21 And I will give Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers, into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their life, even into the hand
of the king of Babylon's army that has gone up from you.
22 Behold, I will command and cause them to return to this city, says YAHUVEH.
And they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. And I will
make the cities of Judah a desolation, so that no inhabitant can live in it.
Matthew 26:20-30
20 And evening having come, He reclined with the Twelve.
21 And as they were eating, He said, Truly I say to you that one of you will
betray Me.
22 And grieving exceedingly, they began to say to Him, each of them, Master, is
it I?
23 But answering, He said, The one dipping the hand with Me in the dish will
betray Me.
24 Indeed, the Son of Man goes, as it has been written about Him. But woe to
that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It were good for him if that man
was never born.
25 And answering, the traitor, Judas, said, is it I, Rabbi? He said to him, You
have said it.
26 And as they ate, taking the bread and blessing it, YAHUSHUA broke and gave to
the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is MY body.
27 And taking the cup, and giving thanks, He gave to them, saying, Drink all of
it.
28 For this represents MY blood of the New Covenant which concerning many is
being poured out for remission of sins.
29 But I say to you, I will not at all drink of this fruit of the vine after
this until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of YAHUVEH.
30 And offering praise, they went to the Mount of Olives.