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Chapter 19 |
| 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, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 10 | Then shalt
thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, |
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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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Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the
inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: |
| 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 Tophet, 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, |
| 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. |
