Jer 19
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Thus said YHWH, Go, and buy a potter`s earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of
the people, and of the elders of the priests;
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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;
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and say, Hear you the word of YHWH, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem:
thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place,
which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
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Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense
in it to other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah;
and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
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and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings
to Baal; which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
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therefore, behold, the days come, says YHWH, that this place shall no more be called
Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
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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 hand of them that
seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the
heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
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And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passes thereby
shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
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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 in the distress,
wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
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Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,
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and shall say to them, Thus says YHWH of hosts: Even so will I break this people and
this city, as one breaks a potter`s vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they
shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
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Thus will I do to this place, says YHWH, and to its inhabitants, even making
this city as Topheth:
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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 upon whose roofs they have burned
incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.
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Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where YHWH had sent him to prophesy; and he stood
in the court of YHWH`s house, and said to all the people:
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Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and
upon 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.