Chapter 19
1: 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;
2: 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,
3: 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.
4: 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;
5: 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:
6: 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.
7: 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.
8: 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.
9: 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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