²⁴Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they became worse instead of better.^a ²⁵From the day that your ancestors^b came out from the land of Egypt until this day I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, day after day, sending again and again.^c ²⁶Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors.^d ²⁷So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

The Valley of the Slaughter

²⁸“And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths.^e ²⁹Shear your hair and throw it^f away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’ ³⁰For the people ^g of Judah have done evil in my eyes,” declares^h Yahweh, “They have set their abominations in the house that is called by my name,ⁱ to defile it. ³¹And they built the high place of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind.^j ³²Therefore look, days are about to come,” declares^k Yahweh, “and it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, and they will bury in Topheth until there is no more place.^l ³³And the dead bodies^m of this people will be as food for the birdsⁿ of the heavens,^o and for the animals^p of the earth, without anyone to scare them^q away. ³⁴And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a site of ruins.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “they were to backward and not to face”
bOr “fathers”
cLiterally “doing early and sending”
dOr “fathers”
eHebrew “mouth”
fHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
gOr “children”
hLiterally “a declaration of”
iLiterally “my name over it”
jOr “heart”
kLiterally “a declaration of”
lLiterally “from there is no place”
mHebrew “body”
nHebrew “bird”
oOr “sky”
pHebrew “animal”
qHere the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation