Jeremiah 19:4–9

⁴“Because they ^dhave forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with ^ethe blood of the innocents ^5f(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, ^gwhich I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), ⁶therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or ^hthe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. ⁷And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, ⁱand I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their ^jcorpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. ⁸I will make this city ^kdesolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. ⁹And I will cause them to eat the ^lflesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’