19This is what the LORD says: "Go, buy a potter's clay jug. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priestsH559H3068H1980H7069H3335H2789H1228H2205H5971H2205H35482and go out to the Valley of Hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you.H3318H1516H1121H2011H6607H2777H8179H7121H1697H16963Say: Hear the word of the LORD, kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudderH559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3427H3389H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H7451H4725H8085H241H67504because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.H5800H5234H4725H6999H312H430H1H3045H4428H3063H4390H4725H1818H53555They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.H1129H1116H1168H8313H1121H784H5930H1168H6680H1696H5927H38206"Therefore, take note! The days are coming"— [this is] the LORD's declaration— "when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.H3117H935H5002H3068H4725H7121H8612H1516H1121H2011H1516H20287I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who want to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.H1238H6098H3063H3389H4725H5307H2719H6440H341H3027H1245H5315H5038H5414H3978H5775H8064H929H7768I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.H7760H5892H8047H8322H5674H8074H8319H43479I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other's flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.H398H1320H1121H1320H1323H398H376H1320H7453H4692H4689H341H1245H5315H669310"Then you are to shatter the jug in the presence of the people traveling with you,H7665H1228H5869H582H198011and you are to proclaim to them: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter's jar that can never again be mended. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place left to bury.H559H559H3068H6635H3602H7665H5971H5892H7665H3335H3627H3201H7495H6912H8612H4725H691212I will do so to this place"— [this is] the declaration of the LORD— "and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.H6213H4725H5002H3068H3427H5414H5892H861213The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth— all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods."H1004H3389H1004H4428H3063H2931H4725H8612H1004H1406H6999H6635H8064H5258H5262H312H43014Jeremiah came back from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of the LORD's temple, and proclaimed to all the people,H935H3414H8612H3068H7971H5012H5975H2691H3068H1004H559H597115"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I am about to bring on this city— and on all its [dependent] villages— all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.'"H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H5892H5892H7451H1696H7185H6203H8085H1697