Jeremiah

Jeremiah 19:1–12

1This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests, 2and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate.

Proclaim there the words I speak to you, 3saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring, 4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. 5They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal — something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

6So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7And in this place I will ruina the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn.b All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds. 9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

10Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you, 11and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

12This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

Footnotes

  • a 19:7 The Hebrew term for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar; see verses 1 and 10.
  • b 19:8 Literally and a hissing

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Cross-references

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Jeremiah 19:1 Ezekiel 8:11–12 · Jeremiah 18:2–4 · Numbers 11:16 · Isaiah 30:14 · Lamentations 4:2

Jeremiah 19:2 Joshua 15:8 · 2 Kings 23:10 · Jeremiah 7:31–32 · 2 Chronicles 33:6 · Jeremiah 32:35 · 2 Chronicles 28:3

Jeremiah 19:3 1 Samuel 3:11 · Jeremiah 17:20 · Jeremiah 6:19 · 2 Kings 21:12–13 · Isaiah 28:19

Jeremiah 19:4 Jeremiah 2:34 · Isaiah 65:11 · 2 Kings 21:16 · Deuteronomy 28:20 · Jeremiah 7:9 · 2 Kings 24:4 · Jeremiah 2:13 · Isaiah 59:7 · Jeremiah 2:19 · Jeremiah 17:13 · Daniel 9:5–15 · 2 Kings 21:4–7

Jeremiah 19:5 Jeremiah 32:35 · Deuteronomy 12:31 · Psalm 106:37–38 · Leviticus 18:21 · Jeremiah 7:31–32 · Ezekiel 16:20–21 · 2 Kings 17:17

Jeremiah 19:6 Joshua 15:8 · Isaiah 30:33 · Jeremiah 19:2

Jeremiah 19:7 Leviticus 26:17 · Jeremiah 16:4 · Psalm 33:10–11 · Deuteronomy 28:25–26 · Jeremiah 15:2 · Psalm 79:2–3 · Jeremiah 7:33 · Jeremiah 15:9 · Isaiah 28:17–18 · Jeremiah 34:20

Jeremiah 19:8 Jeremiah 18:16 · Jeremiah 49:13 · 1 Kings 9:8 · Jeremiah 25:18 · Jeremiah 50:13 · Zephaniah 2:15 · 2 Chronicles 7:20–21

Jeremiah 19:9 Isaiah 9:20 · Lamentations 4:10 · Leviticus 26:29 · Ezekiel 5:10 · Deuteronomy 28:53–57 · 2 Kings 6:26–29 · Lamentations 2:20

Jeremiah 19:10 Jeremiah 48:12 · Jeremiah 51:63–64

Jeremiah 19:11 Psalm 2:9 · Isaiah 30:14

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.