Jeremiah 19:1–6

The Broken Jar

¹Thus says Yahweh, “Go and buy a ^apotter’s earthenware ^bjar, and take some of the ^celders of the people and some of the ^delders of the priests.

²“Then go out to the ^avalley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and there ^bcall out the words that I tell you

³and say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, O ^akings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to bring a ^bcalamity upon this place, at which the ^cears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

⁴“Because they have ^aforsaken Me and have ^bmade this a foreign place and have burned incense in it to ^cother gods, that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the ^dblood of the innocent

⁵and have built the ^ahigh places of Baal to burn their ^bsons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever come upon My heart,

⁶therefore, behold, ^adays are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when this place will no longer be called ^bTopheth or ^cthe valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.