Jeremiah:19

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* Thus saith Jehovah : Go and buy a potter 's earthen flagon , and [take ] of the elders of the people , and of the elders of the priests ; * and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom , which is by the entry of the pottery-gate , and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee , * and say , Hear the word of Jehovah , O kings of Judah , and inhabitants of Jerusalem . Thus saith Jehovah of hosts , the God of Israel : Behold , I will bring evil upon this place , the which whosoever heareth , his ears shall tingle ; * because they have forsaken me , and have estranged this place [from me ], 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 ; * and they have built the high places of Baal , to burn their sons in the fire as burnt-offerings unto Baal , which I commanded not , nor spake it , neither came it up into my mind : * therefore behold , days come , saith Jehovah , that this place shall no more be called Topheth , nor 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 them that seek their life , and their carcases will I give as food to the fowl of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth . * And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing ; every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof . * And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters , and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend , in the siege and in the straitness wherewith their enemies , and they that seek their lives , shall straiten them . * And thou shalt break the flagon in the sight of the men that go with thee , * and shalt say unto them , Thus saith Jehovah 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 in Topheth , till there be no place to bury . * Thus will I do unto this place , saith Jehovah , and to the inhabitants thereof , and make this city as Topheth . * And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as the place of Topheth , defiled , all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of the heavens , and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods . * And Jeremiah came from Topheth , whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy ; and he stood in the court of Jehovah 's house , and said to all the people , * Thus saith Jehovah of hosts , the God of Israel : Behold , I will bring upon this city and upon all her cities all the evil that I have spoken against it ; for they have hardened their necks , not to hear my words .

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