and you are to proclaim to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will shatter these people and this city, as one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.
Now while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell face down and cried out loudly, ‘Oh, Lord God! You are bringing the remnant of Israel to an end! ’