19THUS SAYS the Lord: Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take some of the old people and some of the elderly priestsH559H3068H1980H7069H3335H2789H1228H2205H5971H2205H35482And go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom], which is by the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you,H3318H1516H1121H2011H6607H2777H8179H7121H1697H16963And say, Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am going to bring such evil upon this place that the ears of whoever hears of it will tingle.H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3427H3389H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H7451H4725H8085H241H67504Because the people have forsaken Me and have estranged {and} profaned this place [Jerusalem] by burning incense in it to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocentsH5800H5234H4725H6999H312H430H1H3045H4428H3063H4390H4725H1818H53555And have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not nor spoke of it, nor did it come into My mind {and} heart--H1129H1116H1168H8313H1121H784H5930H1168H6680H1696H5927H38206Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom], but the Valley of Slaughter.H3117H935H5002H3068H4725H7121H8612H1516H1121H2011H1516H20287And I will pour out {and} make void the counsel {and} the plans of [the men of] Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives, and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.H1238H6098H3063H3389H4725H5307H2719H6440H341H3027H1245H5315H5038H5414H3978H5775H8064H929H7768And I will make this city an astonishment {and} a horror and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss [in scorn] because of all its plagues {and} disasters.H7760H5892H8047H8322H5674H8074H8319H43479And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they shall eat each one the flesh of his neighbor {and} friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives distress them.H398H1320H1121H1320H1323H398H376H1320H7453H4692H4689H341H1245H5315H669310Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who accompany you,H7665H1228H5869H582H198011And say to them, Thus said the Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it cannot be mended. Men will bury in Topheth because there will be no other place for burial {and} until there is no more room to bury.H559H559H3068H6635H3602H7665H5971H5892H7665H3335H3627H3201H7495H6912H8612H4725H691212Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to its inhabitants; and I will even make this city like Topheth.H6213H4725H5002H3068H3427H5414H5892H861213And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be like the place of Topheth--even all the houses upon whose roofs incense has been burned to all the host of the heavens and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods.H1004H3389H1004H4428H3063H2931H4725H8612H1004H1406H6999H6635H8064H5258H5262H312H43014Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people,H935H3414H8612H3068H7971H5012H5975H2691H3068H1004H559H597115Thus says the Lord 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 stiffened their necks, refusing to hear My words.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H5892H5892H7451H1696H7185H6203H8085H1697
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