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Jeremiah 19

1 Thus says Jehovah: Go and buy a pottery jar of a potter, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
2 and go·​·out to the Ravine of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entrance of the gate of the sun, and proclaim there the words that I shall speak to thee,
3 and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; thus says Jehovah of Armies, God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and everyone who hears, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken Me, and have made· this place ·unrecognizable, and have burned·​·incense in it to other gods, whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah have not known, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 and they have built the high·​·places of Baal, to burn·​·up their sons with fire for burnt·​·offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came· it ·up upon My heart;
6 therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the Ravine of the Son of Hinnom, but the Ravine of Slaughter.
7 And I will exhaust 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 souls; and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will set this city for a desolation, and a hissing; everyone who passes by her shall be·​·desolate and hiss over all her smitings.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and a man shall eat the flesh of his companion, in the siege, and in the anguish, with which their enemies, and they who seek their souls, shall cause·​·anguish for them.
10 And thou shalt break the jar before the eyes of the men walking with thee,
11 and shalt say unto them, Thus says Jehovah of Armies: In·​·this·​·manner will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that cannot be healed; and they shall bury them in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do to this place, says Jehovah, and to its inhabitants, and to put this city as Topheth;
13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, as the place of Topheth they are unclean, on·​·account·​·of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned·​·incense to all the army of the heavens, and have poured·​·out poured·​·offerings to other gods.
14 Then 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,
15 Thus says Jehovah of Armies, God of Israel: Behold, I will bring to this city and upon all her cities all the evil that I have spoken against her, for they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear My words.