Jeremiah 19 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Thus said יהוה, “Go and get a potter’s earthen jug, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

² “Then you shall go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and shall proclaim there the words that I speak to you,

³ and shall say, ‘Hear the word of יהוה, O sovereigns of Yehuḏ

⁴ “Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it to other mighty ones whom neither they, their fathers, nor the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

⁵ and have built the high places of Baʽ

⁶ “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “that this place shall no more be called Topheth or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter.

⁷ “And I shall pour out the counsel of Yehuḏ

⁸ “And I shall make this city a ruin, and a hissing – everyone who passes by it is appalled and hisses because of all its plagues.

⁹ “And I shall make them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives distress them.” ’

¹⁰ “And you shall break the jug before the eyes of the men who go with you,

¹¹ and shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Even so I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which one is unable to repair again. And let them bury them in Topheth till there is no place to bury.

¹² “This is what I shall do to this place,” declares יהוה, “and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city like Topheth.

¹³ “And the houses of Yerushalayim and the houses of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

¹⁴ And when Yirmeyahu returned from Topheth, where יהוה  had sent him to prophesy, he stood in the courtyard of the House of יהוה  and said to all the people,

¹⁵ “Thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ