KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 19
Jeremiah is sent by Jehovah with witnesses to prophesy the destruction of Jerusalem. He breaks a potter's vessel as a sign of the destruction.
1So says Jehovah, Go and buy a potter's earthen jar, and gather from the elders of the people, and from the elders of the priests.
2And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom by the entry of Potsherd Gate. And there proclaim the words that I will speak to you.
3And say, Hear the Word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and those living in Jerusalem. So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil on this place by which every one who hear, his ears will tingle.
4Because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods whom they and their fathers have not known, and not the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place with the blood of innocent ones,
5They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command and did not speak, and it did not come into My heart.
6So, behold, the days come, a statement of Jehovah, that this place shall be no more called Tophet, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but Valley of Slaughter.
7And 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 lives. And I will give their corpses for food to the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth.
8And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be stunned and shall hiss because of all its plagues.
9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And a man will eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall distress them.
10And you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who go with you,
11and shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, So I will break this people and this city, as one breaks the potter's vessel that cannot be healed again. And they shall bury in Tophet, there being no place to bury.
12I will do this to this place, a statement of Jehovah, and to those living in it, and give this place to be as Tophet.
13And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the roofs of the houses on which they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
14And Jeremiah came from Tophet, where Jehovah had sent him there to prophesy. And he stood in the court of the house of Jehovah, and he said to all the people,
15So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring to this city, and on all its towns, all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have stiffened their necks in order not to hear My words.
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