⁴Because they have forsaken me, and they have defaced this place, and they have made smoke offerings in it to other gods whom they have not known, they, nor their ancestors,^b nor the kings of Judah, and they have filled up this place with the blood of the innocent, ⁵and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire, burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, and I ordered not, and it did not come to my mind.^c

⁶“Therefore^d look, days are about to come,” declares^e Yahweh, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but^f the Valley of the Slaughter. ⁷And I will lay waste the plans^g of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will bring them to ruin by the sword before^h their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their dead bodiesⁱ as food to the birds^j of heaven and to the animals^k of the earth. ⁸And I will make this city a horror, and an object of hissing, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds. ⁹And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress which their enemies and those who seek their life inflict on them.” ’

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Footnotes

bOr “fathers”
cLiterally “heart”
dLiterally “To thus”
eLiterally “a declaration of”
fLiterally “surely if”
gHebrew “plan”
hLiterally “to the face of”
iHebrew “dead body”
jHebrew “bird”
kHebrew “animal”