Jeremiah:19
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Go and get a potters earthen bottle ,
and take of the ancients of the people ,
and of the ancients of the priests ;
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And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
which is by the entry of the east gate sha #
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and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee ,
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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 Yisra #
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Behold ,
I will bring evil upon this place ,
the which whosoever heareth ,
his ears shall tingle .
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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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They have built also the high places of Baal Ba #
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to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal Ba #
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which I commanded not ,
nor spake it ,
neither came it into my mind :
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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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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 potters 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 :
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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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Then came Jeremiah from Tophet ,
whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy ;
and he stood in the court of the LORDS house ;
and said to all the people ,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
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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 .