Jeremiah 19
19
The Clay Jar
1This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay # Jr 18:2 jar. Take # Syr, Tg; MT omits Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests # 2Kg 19:2 2and go out to the Valley of Hinnom # 2Kg 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; Jr 7:31-32 near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you. 3Say: Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. # Jr 17:20 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudder # Lit shudder their ears ; 1Sm 3:11; 2Kg 21:12 # 1Sm 3:11; 2Kg 21:12 4because they have abandoned Me # Dt 28:20; 31:16; 1Sm 8:8; 1Kg 11:33; 2Kg 22:17; 2Ch 34:25; Jr 1:16; 5:7 and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. # Dt 19:10; 27:25; 2Kg 21:6,16; 24:4; Is 59:7; Jr 2:34 5They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought. # Lit mentioned, and it did not arise on My heart # Jr 7:31; 32:35
6“Therefore, take note! The days are coming” # Jr 7:32; 16:14; 23:5; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47,52 — this is the Lord’s declaration — “when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. # Jr 25:34 7I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who want to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land. # Dt 28:26; Ps 79:2; Jr 7:33; 15:3; 16:4 8I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds. # Dt 28:37; 2Ch 29:8; 30:7; Jr 5:30; 25:9,18; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12,22; 49:17; 50:13; Mc 1:9; 6:16; Nah 3:19; Zph 2:15 9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them. # Dt 28:53-57; Ezk 5:10; Lm 4:10
10“Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling with you, 11and you are to proclaim to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials. # Jr 7:32 12I will do so to this place” — this is the declaration of the Lord — “and to its residents, making this city like Topheth. 13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth — all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host # Dt 4:19; 2Kg 17:16; 23:4-5; Zph 1:5 and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
14Jeremiah came back from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple, # 2Ch 20:5; Jr 26:2 and proclaimed to all the people, 15“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city — and on all its dependent villages — all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.’ ” # Jr 7:26
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Jeremiah 19
19
The Valley of the Slaughter
1Thus said Yahweh, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people, and some of the leaders of the priests, 2and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is at the entrance of the Gate of the Potsherd, and proclaim there the words that I speak to you. 3And you shall say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: “Look, I am about to bring disaster upon this place so that everyone who hears it,#Literally “all hears it” his ears will ring. 4Because they have forsaken me, and they have defaced this place, and they have made smoke offerings in it to other gods whom they have not known, they, nor their ancestors,#Or “fathers” nor the kings of Judah, and they have filled up this place with the blood of the innocent, 5and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire, burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, and I ordered not, and it did not come to my mind.#Literally “heart”
6“Therefore#Literally “To thus” look, days are about to come,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but#Literally “surely if” the Valley of the Slaughter. 7And I will lay waste the plans#Hebrew “plan” of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will bring them to ruin by the sword before#Literally “to the face of” their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their dead bodies#Hebrew “dead body” as food to the birds#Hebrew “bird” of heaven and to the animals#Hebrew “animal” of the earth. 8And I will make this city a horror, and an object of hissing, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds. 9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress which their enemies and those who seek their life inflict on them.” ’
10“Then you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who go with you. 11And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: “So I will break this people and this city as one breaks the vessel of the potter, so that it is not able to be repaired again. And in Topheth they will bury until there is no room to bury.#Literally “from there is no place to bury” 12Thus will I do to this place,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, to make this city like Topheth. 13And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be unclean like the place of Topheth, all the houses where they made smoke offerings upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and where they poured out libations to other gods.” ’ ”
14Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh and said to all the people, 15“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Look, I am about to bring to this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their neck to not hear my words.’ ”
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