Jeremiah 19
19 1Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and
take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
2and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry
of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee;
3and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants
of Jerusalem: thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will
bring evil upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have
burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their
fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of
innocents,
5and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in
the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it,
neither came it into my mind:
6therefore, behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
7And I will make void the
counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall
by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their
life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the
heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
8And I will make this city an
astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9And I will cause
them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and
they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the
distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall
distress them.
10Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men
that go with thee,
11and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a
potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in
Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
12Thus will I do unto this
place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city
as Topheth:
13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of
Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the
houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven,
and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.
14Then came Jeremiah
from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the
court of Jehovah's house, and said to all the people:
15Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and
upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because
they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.
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