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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 19
19:1 Thus says 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;
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
you,
19:3 And say, Hear all of you the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever hears, his
ears shall tingle.
19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have cut off 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 innocent persons;
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 spoke
it, neither came it into my mind:
19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that this place
shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but
The valley of slaughter.
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 carcasses will
I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth.
19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one
that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues
thereof.
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 strictness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek
their lives, shall straiten them.
19:10 Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that
go with you,
19:11 And shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even so
will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel,
that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till
there be no place to bury.
19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, says the LORD, and to the inhabitants
thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
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.
19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to
prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all
the people,
19:15 Thus says 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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