Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 34:11

11 But afterwards they turned, and caused the servants, and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for hand-maids .

Like a company of wretched hypocrites they reformed this abuse, only to serve a turn which when it was served, they returned again to their old oppression, and in this thing not the people alone, but the Government was to be blamed for their Judges in their Courts of Justice, ought to have executed the Law of the Lord, and to have restrained the covetous and oppressive humour of the people. The learned Author of the English Annotations thinketh that that which altered their minds, was a little alteration of their state, during the siege for chap. 37.5. we read that the Babylonians and Caldeans hearing of an army coming out of Egypt, to relieve the City, lest the siege for a time, and that the Prophet, ver. 21. of this chapter relates to that, when he prophesied, that the King of Babylons Army should return. But these wretched men, seeing the Babylonian Army raised from the siege, concluded they were now out of Gods hands, and repented of their Repentance in this particular, and would make all their servants return into their former servitude.