⁴For they have forsaken^r me and made this a place of foreign gods^s; they have burned incense^t in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^u ⁵They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children^v in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.^w ⁶So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth^x or the Valley of Ben Hinnom,^y but the Valley of Slaughter.^z

⁷“ ‘In this place I will ruin^a the plans^a of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies,^b at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses^c as food^d to the birds and the wild animals. ⁸I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn;^e all who pass by will be appalled^f and will scoff because of all its wounds.^g ⁹I will make them eat^h the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemiesⁱ will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

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Footnotes

aThe Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10).

Cross references

rSee Dt 31:16; Dt 28:20; See Isa 65:11
sSee Ex 20:3; See Jer 1:16
tSee Lev 18:21
uSee 2 Ki 21:16
vSee Lev 18:21; See 2 Ki 3:27; Ps 106:37–38
wSee Jer 7:31; Eze 16:36
xSee 2 Ki 23:10
ySee Jos 15:8
z Jer 7:32
a Ps 33:10–11
bSee ver 9; See Lev 26:17; See Dt 28:25
cSee Jer 16:4; 34:20
dSee Dt 28:26
eSee Dt 28:37; See Jer 18:16; 25:9
fSee Lev 26:32; La 2:15–16
gSee Dt 29:22
hSee Lev 26:29; Dt 28:49–57; La 4:10
iSee ver 7; Jer 21:7; 34:20