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.” ’

¹⁰“Then you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who go with you. ¹¹And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: “So I will break this people and this city as one breaks the vessel of the potter, so that it is not able to be repaired again. And in Topheth they will bury until there is no room to bury.^l ¹²Thus will I do to this place,” declares^m Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, to make this city like Topheth.

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Footnotes

gHebrew “plan”
hLiterally “to the face of”
iHebrew “dead body”
jHebrew “bird”
kHebrew “animal”
lLiterally “from there is no place to bury”
mLiterally “a declaration of”