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chapter 19
1
Thus
saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the
ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests:
2 And go forth into the valley of the son of Ennom,
which is by the entry of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt proclaim the
words that I shall tell thee.
3 And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye
kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that
whoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this
place: and have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their
fathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place with the
blood of innocents.
5 And they have built the high places of Baalim, to
burn their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not
command, nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.
6 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that
this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom,
but the valley of slaughter.
7 And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of
Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of
their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give
their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the
earth.
8 And I will make this city an astonishent, and a
hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss
because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and
with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of
his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they
that seek their lives shall straiten them.
10 And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the
men that shall go with thee.
11 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of
hosts: even so will I break this people, and this city, as the potter's vessel
is broken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in
Topheth, because there is no other place to bury in.
12 Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to
the inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of Juda
shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roots they
have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings
to strange gods.
14 Then Jeremias came from Topheth, whither the Lord
had sent him to prophecy, and he stood in the court of the house of the Lord,
and said to all people:
15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Behold I will bring in upon this city, and upon all the cities thereof all the
evils that I have spoken against it: because they have hardened their necks,
and they might not hear my words.
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