Jeremiah:19

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* Thus said LORD : Go , and buy a potter 's earthen bottle , and [take ] of the elders of the people , and of the elders of the priests , * 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 thee . * And say , Hear ye the word of LORD , O kings of Judah , and inhabitants of Jerusalem . Thus says LORD of hosts , the God of Israel : Behold , I will bring evil upon this place , which whoever hears , his ears shall tingle . * 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 , * 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 did it come into my mind . * Therefore , behold , the days come , says LORD , that this place shall no more be called Topheth , nor the valley of the son of Hinnom , but the valley of Slaughter . * 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 those who seek their life . And I will give their dead bodies to be food for * And I will make this city an astonishment , and a hissing . Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it . * And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters . And they shall eat each one the flesh of his friend , in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies , and those who seek their life , s * Then thou shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with thee , * and shall say to them , Thus says LORD of hosts : Even so I will break this people and this city , as a potter 's vessel is broken , that cannot be made whole again . And they shall bury in Topheth till there be no place to bury . * Thus I will do to this place , says LORD , and to the inhabitants of it , even making this city as Topheth . * 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 dr * Then Jeremiah came from Topheth , where LORD had sent him to prophesy , and he stood in the court of LORD 's house , and said to all the people , * Thus says LORD 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 .

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