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Jeremiah 19
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Smashing the Clay Pot

19GOD said to me, "Go, buy a clay pot. Then get a few leaders from the people and a few of the leading priestsH559H3068H1980H7069H3335H2789H1228H2205H5971H2205H3548 2and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, just outside the Potsherd Gate, and preach there what I tell you.H3318H1516H1121H2011H6607H2777H8179H7121H1697H1696 3"Say, 'Listen to GOD's Word, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem! This is the Message from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel. I'm about to bring doom crashing down on this place. Oh, and will ears ever ring!H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3427H3389H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H7451H4725H8085H241H6750 4Doom—because they've walked off and left me, and made this place strange by worshiping strange gods, gods never heard of by them, their parents, or the old kings of Judah. Doom—because they have massacred innocent people.H5800H5234H4725H6999H312H430H1H3045H4428H3063H4390H4725H1818H5355 5Doom—because they've built altars to that no-god Baal, and burned their own children alive in the fire as offerings to Baal, an atrocity I never ordered, never so much as hinted at!H1129H1116H1168H8313H1121H784H5930H1168H6680H1696H5927H3820 6"'And so it's pay day, and soon'—GOD's Decree!—'this place will no longer be known as Topheth or Valley of Ben-hinnom, but Massacre Meadows.H3117H935H5002H3068H4725H7121H8612H1516H1121H2011H1516H2028 7I'm canceling all the plans Judah and Jerusalem had for this place, and I'll have them killed by their enemies. I'll stack their dead bodies to be eaten by carrion crows and wild dogs.H1238H6098H3063H3389H4725H5307H2719H6440H341H3027H1245H5315H5038H5414H3978H5775H8064H929H776 8I'll turn this city into such a museum of atrocities that anyone coming near will be shocked speechless by the savage brutality.H7760H5892H8047H8322H5674H8074H8319H4347 9The people will turn into cannibals. Dehumanized by the pressure of the enemy siege, they'll eat their own children! Yes, they'll eat one another, family and friends alike.'H398H1320H1121H1320H1323H398H376H1320H7453H4692H4689H341H1245H5315H6693 10"Say all this, and then smash the pot in front of the men who have come with you.H7665H1228H5869H582H1980 11Then say, 'This is what GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says: I'll smash this people and this city like a man who smashes a clay pot into so many pieces it can never be put together again. They'll bury bodies here in Topheth until there's no more room.H559H559H3068H6635H3602H7665H5971H5892H7665H3335H3627H3201H7495H6912H8612H4725H6912 12And the whole city will become a Topheth.H6213H4725H5002H3068H3427H5414H5892H8612 13The city will be turned by people and kings alike into a center for worshiping the star gods and goddesses, turned into an open grave, the whole city an open grave, stinking like a sewer, like Topheth.'"H1004H3389H1004H4428H3063H2931H4725H8612H1004H1406H6999H6635H8064H5258H5262H312H430 14Then Jeremiah left Topheth, where GOD had sent him to preach the sermon, and took his stand in the court of GOD's Temple and said to the people,H935H3414H8612H3068H7971H5012H5975H2691H3068H1004H559H5971 15"This is the Message from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies to you: 'Warning! Danger! I'm bringing down on this city and all the surrounding towns the doom that I have pronounced. They're set in their ways and won't budge. They refuse to do a thing I say.'"H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H5892H5892H7451H1696H7185H6203H8085H1697


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