ULT JER Chapter 19

◄ JER 19 ► ║ ═ ©

19 Thus says Yahweh: “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take from of the elders of the people and of from of the elders of the priests. 2 And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I will speak to you. 3 And you shall say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah and dwellers of Jerusalem. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold me, bringing disaster on this place, that everyone hearing it, his ears will tingle. 4 On account that they have forsaken me and have made this place foreign, and they have burned incense in it to other gods that they did not know, they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents. 5 And they have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command, and I did not speak, and it did not come up into my heart.

6 Therefore, behold, days are coming”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter. 7 And I will empty the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword to the face of their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. And I will give their corpses as food to the birds of the heavens and to the beast of the earth. 8 And I will make this city a desolation and a hissing. Everyone passing by it will be appalled and will hiss over all its wounds. 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each man will eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and the seekers of their life will impose on them.’

10 “And you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who are going with you. 11 And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Thus I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a vessel of the potter that is not able to be made whole again. And in Topheth they will bury, until there is no place to bury. 12 Thus I will do to this place’ —the declaration of Yahweh—‘and to its dwellers, and to make this city like Topheth. 13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be like the defiled place of Topheth, because of all of the houses where they have burned incense on their roofs to all of the host of the heavens and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”

14 And Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him there to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh and said to all the people: 15 “Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: ‘Behold me, bringing to this city and to all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have stiffened their neck so as not to hear my words.’ ”