Thus saith
the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,
and take of the ancients of the people, and of
the ancients of the priests;
02 And go forth unto the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate,
and proclaim there the words that I shall tell
thee,
03 And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings
of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus
saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the
which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
04 Because they have forsaken me, and have
estranged this place, and have burned incense in
it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their
fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and
have filled this place with the blood of
innocents;
05 They have built also the high places of Baal,
to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings
unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it,
neither came it into my mind:
06 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, that this place shall no more be called
Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but
The valley of slaughter.
07 And 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 hands of them that seek their lives: and
their carcases will I give to be meat for the
fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth.
08 And I will make this city desolate, and an
hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished and hiss because of all the plagues
thereof.
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09 And 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 straitness, wherewith their
enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall
straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight
of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
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 them in Tophet, till there be no place to
bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the
Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even
make this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of
the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place
of Tophet, because of 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.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the
Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in
the court of the Lord's house; and said to all
the people,
15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and
upon all her towns all the evil that I have
pronounced against it, because they have hardened
their necks, that they might not hear my words.
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