29 Shave your head in mourning and throw the hair away.

Sing a mourning song on the barren heights

because Yahweh has rejected and abandoned the generation who made him angry.

30 Yes, Yahweh says that Yehudah’s (Judah’s) people have done what I consider evil—putting disgusting things in the temple that’s associated with my name, and so have defiled it. 31 They’ve built hilltop shrines to Tofet in Hinom valley outside Yerushalem (Jerusalem)[ref] to burn their sons and daughters in fire—something I’ve never commanded or even considered.[ref] 32 So listen, Yahweh says, that days are coming because of that that, when it’ll no longer be called ‘Tofet’ or ‘Hinom valley’, but rather, ‘The Slaughter Valley’, because so many people will be buried in Tofet that they’ll run out of space. 33 Then the people’s corpses will become food for the vultures and the wild animals, and there’ll be no one left to frighten them away. 34 Then in Yehudah’s cities and Yerushalem’s streets, I’ll halt the sounds of joy and gladness, even wedding celebrations,[ref] because the region will become a wasteland.

8 Yahweh declares that they will bring the bones of Yehudah’s kings out from their graves at that time, as well as the bones of their leaders, priests, and prophets, along with the bones of Yerushalem’s inhabitants. 2 Then they’ll spread them out under the sun, moon, and stars—the heavenly bodies that they loved and served, and that they followed after and searched for, and that they bowed down to. Those bones won’t be collected up, and they won’t be buried again. They’ll be like dung across the surface of the land. 3 The remnant of that evil group of people in all those places where I banished them, will choose death rather than life. That is Commander-in-chief Yahweh’s declaration.