Jeremiah 19:1WEB
Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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JeremiahWEB
Jeremiah 19:1WEB
Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 19:2WEB
and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.
Jeremiah 19:3WEB
Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 19:4WEB
Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
Jeremiah 19:5WEB
and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.
Jeremiah 19:6WEB
Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 19:7WEB
“‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
Jeremiah 19:8WEB
I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
Jeremiah 19:9WEB
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’
Jeremiah 19:10WEB
“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,
Jeremiah 19:11WEB
and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 19:12WEB
This is what I will do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 19:13WEB
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
Jeremiah 19:14WEB
Then Jeremiah came 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:
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 19:15WEB
“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘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.’”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.