19The LORD told me to go and buy a clay jar. He also told me to take some of the elders of the people and some of the older priests,H559H3068H1980H7069H3335H2789H1228H2205H5971H2205H35482and to go through Potsherd Gate out to Hinnom Valley. There I was to proclaim the message that he would give me.H3318H1516H1121H2011H6607H2777H8179H7121H1697H16963The LORD told me to say, "Kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem, listen to what I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will be stunned.H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3427H3389H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H7451H4725H8085H241H67504I am going to do this because the people have abandoned me and defiled this place by offering sacrifices here to other gods - gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known anything about. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people,H5800H5234H4725H6999H312H430H1H3045H4428H3063H4390H4725H1818H53555and they have built altars for Baal in order to burn their children in the fire as sacrifices. I never commanded them to do this; it never even entered my mind.H1129H1116H1168H8313H1121H784H5930H1168H6680H1696H5927H38206So then, the time will come when this place will no longer be called Topheth or Hinnom Valley. Instead, it will be known as Slaughter Valley.H3117H935H5002H3068H4725H7121H8612H1516H1121H2011H1516H20287In this place I will frustrate all the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will let their enemies triumph over them and kill them in battle. I will give their corpses to the birds and the wild animals as food.H1238H6098H3063H3389H4725H5307H2719H6440H341H3027H1245H5315H5038H5414H3978H5775H8064H929H7768I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.H7760H5892H8047H8322H5674H8074H8319H43479The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children."H398H1320H1121H1320H1323H398H376H1320H7453H4692H4689H341H1245H5315H669310Then the LORD told me to break the jar in front of those who had gone with meH7665H1228H5869H582H198011and to tell them that the LORD Almighty had said, "I will break this people and this city, and it will be like this broken clay jar that cannot be put together again. People will bury their dead even in Topheth because there will be nowhere else to bury them.H559H559H3068H6635H3602H7665H5971H5892H7665H3335H3627H3201H7495H6912H8612H4725H691212I promise that I will make this city and its inhabitants like Topheth.H6213H4725H5002H3068H3427H5414H5892H861213The houses of Jerusalem, the houses of the kings of Judah, and indeed all the houses on whose roofs incense has been burned to the stars and where wine has been poured out as an offering to other gods - they will all be as unclean as Topheth."H1004H3389H1004H4428H3063H2931H4725H8612H1004H1406H6999H6635H8064H5258H5262H312H43014Then I left Topheth, where the LORD had sent me to proclaim his message. I went and stood in the court of the Temple and told all the peopleH935H3414H8612H3068H7971H5012H5975H2691H3068H1004H559H597115that the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had said, "I am going to bring on this city and on every nearby town all the punishment that I said I would, because you are stubborn and will not listen to what I say."H559H3068H6635H430H3478H935H5892H5892H7451H1696H7185H6203H8085H1697