Jeremiah 34:22

The sovereign Lord was going to command the Babylonian army to go back to Jerusalem, to fight against it, to take it, and to burn it. He would also make the cities of Judah a desolation, without human inhabitants (cf. Jeremiah 10:22). This further breach of covenant was one more nail in the coffin of the Southern Kingdom.

"When Jeremiah redeems his cousin’s land (chap. 32) and when the Rechabites refuse to drink wine (chap. 35), they act out of loyalty to ancient obligations in spite of the threatening circumstances of the Babylonian attack. When Judah’s leading citizens take back their slaves, they not only violate covenants old and new; they deny the LORD’s word through Jeremiah that their land had been assigned to Nebuchadrezzar’s control, just as King Jehoiakim had denied it (chap. 36)." [Note: Scalise, p. 190.]