1: Thus saith 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; |
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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 thee, |
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3:
And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and
inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever
heareth, his ears shall tingle. |
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4: Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged 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 innocents; |
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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
spake it, neither came it into my mind: |
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6: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this
place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of
Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. |
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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
carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the
beasts of the earth. |
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8: And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one
that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the
plagues thereof. |
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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 straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they
that seek their lives, shall straiten them. |
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10: Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that
go with thee, |
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11: And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even
so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's
vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in
Tophet, till there be no place to bury. |
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12: Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the
inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: |
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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. |
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14: Then came Jeremiah from phet, whither the LORD had sent him
to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to
all the people, |
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15: Thus saith 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. |