Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
This
is
what
the
LORD
says:
“
Go and buy a clay
jar
from
a
potter.
Take some
of the elders of the people and leaders
of the priests ,
Thus
said
Yahweh,
Go ,
and buy a potter's
earthen
bottle,
and
[
take ]
of the elders of the people ,
and of the elders
of
the
priests ;
and go out
to the Valley of Ben-
hinnom near
the entrance
of the Potsherd
Gate .
Proclaim there the words I speak
to
you ,
and go forth
to the valley of the
son
of
Hinnom ,
which
is
by
the entry
of the gate Harsith,
and
proclaim there the words that
I shall
tell
you ;
saying
, ‘
Hear the word of the
LORD
, O
kings of Judah and residents
of Jerusalem .
This
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:
I am
going
to
bring such
disaster
on this place that
the
ears
of
all
who
hear
of
it
will
ring
,
and
say
, Hear you
the word of Yahweh
, kings of Judah ,
and inhabitants
of Jerusalem :
thus
says
Yahweh
of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold,
I will
bring evil
on this place, which
whoever
hears,
his
ears
shall
tingle.
because they have abandoned
Me and made
this a
foreign
place .
They
have burned incense in this
place
to other gods that neither
they nor
their fathers nor
the kings of Judah have
ever
known.
They
have filled this place with the blood of the
innocent.
Because they have forsaken
me ,
and have
estranged
this place ,
and
have burned incense in it
to other gods ,
that they didn't
know,
they
and
their fathers and
the kings of Judah ;
and
have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
They
have built high places to
Baal on
which
to burn their children
in the fire as
offerings to Baal —something
I never
commanded
or
mentioned
, nor did
it even
enter
My mind .
and
have built the
high places of
Baal ,
to burn their sons
in the fire for
burnt
offerings to Baal ;
which
I didn't
command
, nor spoke
it ,
neither
came
it
into
my mind :
So
behold, the days are
coming
, declares
the
LORD
, when
this place will
no longer
be called Topheth or
the Valley of Ben-
hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
therefore,
behold, the days come
, says
Yahweh
, that
this place shall
no more
be called Topheth ,
nor
The valley of the
son
of
Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
And
in
this
place
I will ruin
the plans
of Judah and Jerusalem .
I will make
them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands
of those who seek their lives,
and I
will give their
carcasses
as
food
to the birds of the air
and the beasts
of the earth.
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 hand
of those who seek their life:
and their
dead
bodies
will I
give to be
food
for
the birds of the sky,
and for
the animals
of the earth.
I will make this city a
desolation
and
an object
of
scorn.
All
who pass
by
will
be appalled
and will
scoff
at
all her
wounds
.
I will make this city an astonishment,
and
a
hissing;
everyone
who passes
thereby
shall
be astonished
and hiss
because
of
all the
plagues
of
it
.
I will make
them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters ,
and they will
eat one
another’s
flesh in the siege and distress inflicted
on
them
by
their enemies who seek their lives
. ’
I will cause
them to
eat the flesh of their sons and the
flesh
of
their
daughters ;
and they shall
eat everyone
the
flesh of
his
friend,
in the siege and in
the
distress ,
with
which
their enemies ,
and
those
who seek their life,
shall
distress
them
.
Then you are
to
shatter
the jar
in the presence
of the men who accompany
you,
Then shall
you break
the bottle
in the sight
of the men who go
with
you,
and you
are
to
proclaim
to
them that
this
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts says
: I
will shatter
this nation
and this city, like
one shatters
a potter’s
jar
that can
never
again
be repaired.
They will
bury the
dead
in Topheth until there is
no more
room
to bury them
.
and shall
tell
them ,
Thus
says
Yahweh
of Hosts: Even
so
will I
break
this people
and this city, as
one breaks
a potter's
vessel,
that can't
be made
whole
again;
and
they shall
bury in Topheth ,
until there be
no place
to bury.
This
is
what
I
will do to this place and to its
residents,
declares
the LORD.
I
will
make
this city like
Topheth .
Thus
will I
do to this place ,
says
Yahweh,
and to the inhabitants
of
it,
even
making
this city as
Topheth :
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will
be
defiled like
that
place
, Topheth —
all the houses on whose rooftops
they burned incense to all the host of heaven
and poured out drink offerings to other gods. ”
and
the houses of Jerusalem ,
and the houses of the kings of Judah ,
which
are
defiled, shall
be
as
the
place
of
Topheth ,
even
all the houses on whose roofs
they have
burned incense to all the host of the
sky,
and have
poured out drink -
offerings to other gods.
Then Jeremiah returned
from Topheth, where the
LORD
had sent him to prophesy ,
and he stood in the courtyard
of the
house of
the
LORD
and proclaimed
to all the people ,
Then came
Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh
had sent him to prophesy ;
and he stood in the court
of Yahweh's
house ,
and said
to all the people :
“This
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:
‘
Behold, I am
about
to
bring on this city and on all the villages
around
it
every
disaster
I have pronounced against them,
because they have stiffened
their necks
so
as
not to
heed
My words. ’”
Thus
says
Yahweh
of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will
bring on this city and on all its
towns
all
the evil
that
I have pronounced against it;
because they have made
their neck
stiff,
that
they
may
not hear
my words.
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