Jeremiah 19

19Thus saith the Lord, ^aGo and get ^ba potter’s earthen ^cbottle, and take of ^dthe ancients of the people, and of ^dthe ancients of the priests; ²And go forth unto ^ethe 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, ³And say, ^eeHear ye the word of the Lord, ^fO 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, ^ghis ears shall tingle. ⁴Because ^hthey have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and ^hhave 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 ⁱthe blood of innocents; ^5kThey have built also the high places of Baal, ^lto burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, ^klmwhich I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: ⁶ⁿTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called ^yTophet, nor ^eThe valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. ⁷And I will ^domake void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and ^pI will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and ^qtheir carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. ⁸And ^rI will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. ⁹And ^sI 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 ^tin the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. ¹⁰Then ^ushalt thou break ^cthe bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, ^11uAnd shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so ^vwill I break this people and this city, ^was one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot ^†be made whole again: and ^xthey shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. ¹²Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city ^yas Tophet: ¹³And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled ^yas the place of Tophet, because of all the houses ^zupon whose ^aroofs they have burned incense unto ^ball the host of heaven, and ^chave poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

¹⁴Then came Jeremiah ^yfrom Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and ^dhe stood in the court of the Lord’s house; and said to all the people, ¹⁵Thus 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 ^ethey have hardened their necks, ^fthat they might not hear my words.