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the Potter’s House (continued)
19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's
earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and
of the ancients of the priests;
19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there
the words that I shall tell thee,
19:3 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; Behold, I will bring evil upon
this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall
tingle.
19:4 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;
19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn
their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
19:6 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.
19:7 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.
19:8 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.
19:9 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.
19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the
men that go with thee,
19:11 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 potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole
again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no
place to bury.
19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and
to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as
Tophet:
19:13 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.
19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had
sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the
LORD's house; and said to all the people,
19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
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
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