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Jeremiah 19
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The Broken Jar

19Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and [ take] some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.H559H3068H1980H7069H3335H2789H1228H2205H5971H2205H3548 2"Then go out to the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate; and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you,H3318H1516H1121H2011H6607H2777H8179H7121H1697H1696 3and 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 about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3427H3389H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H7451H4725H8085H241H6750 4"Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had [ever] known, and [because] they have filled this place with the blood of the innocentH5800H5234H4725H6999H312H430H1H3045H4428H3063H4390H4725H1818H5355 5and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it [ever] enter My mind;H1129H1116H1168H8313H1121H784H5930H1168H6680H1696H5927H3820 6therefore, behold, days are coming, "declares the LORD," when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.H3117H935H5002H3068H4725H7121H8612H1516H1121H2011H1516H2028 7"And I shall make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I shall cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I shall give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.H1238H6098H3063H3389H4725H5307H2719H6440H341H3027H1245H5315H5038H5414H3978H5775H8064H929H776 8"I shall also make this city a desolation and an [object of] hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.H7760H5892H8047H8322H5674H8074H8319H4347 9"And I shall make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them." 'H398H1320H1121H1320H1323H398H376H1320H7453H4692H4689H341H1245H5315H6693 10"Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany youH7665H1228H5869H582H1980 11and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Just so shall I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no [other] place for burial.H559H559H3068H6635H3602H7665H5971H5892H7665H3335H3627H3201H7495H6912H8612H4725H6912 12"This is how I shall treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.H6213H4725H5002H3068H3427H5414H5892H8612 13"And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned sacrifices to all the heavenly host and poured out libations to other gods." '"H1004H3389H1004H4428H3063H2931H4725H8612H1004H1406H6999H6635H8064H5258H5262H312H430 14Then Jeremiah came 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:H935H3414H8612H3068H7971H5012H5975H2691H3068H1004H559H5971 15"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.'"H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H5892H5892H7451H1696H7185H6203H8085H1697


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