Bible, King James Version
Jeremiah
Jer.19
[1] Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen
bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests;
[2] And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the
words that I shall tell thee,
[3] And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of
Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this
place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
[4] Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this
place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of
Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of
innocents;
[5] They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn
their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
[6] Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the
son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
[7] And I will make void the counsel of Judah and
Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the
sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek
their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the
fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
[8] And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss
because of all the plagues thereof.
[9] And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons
and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one
the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith
their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten
them.
[10] Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the
men that go with thee,
[11] And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and
they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to
bury.
[12] Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and
to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as
Tophet:
[13] And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the
kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because
of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto
all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto
other gods.
[14] Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had
sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's
house; and said to all the people,
[15] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all
the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have
hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
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