JER-19:1  Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen

bottle, and

[take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the

priests;

JER-19:2  And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,

which [is] by the

entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I

shall tell thee,

JER-19:3  And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of

Judah, and

inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God

of Israel;

Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever

heareth, his

ears shall tingle.

JER-19:4  Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this

place, and

have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor

their fathers

have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place

with the blood

of innocents;

JER-19:5  They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn

their sons

with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not,

 nor spake

[it], neither came [it] into my mind:

JER-19:6  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that

this place

shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of

Hinnom, but The

valley of slaughter.

JER-19:7  And I will make void the counsel of Judah and

Jerusalem in this

place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their

enemies, and by

the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will

I give to be

meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the

earth.

JER-19:8  And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing;

every one that

passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the

plagues

thereof.

JER-19:9  And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons

and the flesh

of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of

his friend in

the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that

seek their

lives, shall straiten them.

JER-19:10  Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the

men that go

with thee.

JER-19:11  And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;

 Even so will

I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter's

vessel, that

cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet,

 till [there

be] no place to bury.

JER-19:12  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and

to the

inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:

JER-19:13  And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the

kings of Judah,

shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the

houses upon whose

roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and

have poured

out drink offerings unto other gods.

JER-19:14  Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had

sent him to

prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and

said to all the

people,

JER-19:15  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;

Behold, I will

bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I

have

pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks,

that they might

not hear my words.

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