Jeremiah 19

1Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;Cross-references: Num 11:16 · 2Ki 19:2 · 1Chr 24:4 · Isa 30:14 · Jer 18:2 · Jer 19:10 · +10 more

2and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.Cross-references: Josh 15:8 · 2Ki 23:10 · 2Chr 28:3 · 2Chr 33:6 · Neh 3:29 · Prov 1:20 · +12 more

3Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.Cross-references: 1Sam 3:11 · 1Sam 4:16 · 2Ki 21:12 · Ps 2:10 · Ps 102:15 · Ps 110:5 · +6 more

4Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,Cross-references: Deut 13:6 · Deut 13:13 · Deut 28:20 · Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 31:16 · +31 more

5and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.Cross-references: Lev 18:21 · Num 22:41 · Deut 12:31 · 2Ki 17:17 · 2Chr 28:3 · Ps 106:37 · +6 more

6Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.Cross-references: Josh 15:8 · Isa 30:33 · Jer 7:32 · Jer 19:2 · Jer 19:11

7“‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Deut 28:25 · Job 5:12 · Ps 33:10 · Ps 79:2 · Prov 21:30 · +18 more

8I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.Cross-references: Lev 26:32 · 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 7:20 · Jer 9:9 · Jer 18:16 · Jer 25:18 · +4 more

9I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’Cross-references: Lev 26:29 · Deut 28:53 · 2Ki 6:26 · Isa 9:20 · Lam 2:20 · Lam 4:10 · +1 more

10“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,Cross-references: Jer 19:1 · Jer 48:12 · Jer 51:63

11and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.Cross-references: Ps 2:9 · Isa 30:14 · Jer 7:31 · Jer 13:14 · Jer 19:6 · Lam 4:2 · +1 more

12This is what I will do to this place,” says Yahweh, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.Cross-references: Jer 10:13 · Jer 11:5

13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · 2Ki 23:10 · 2Ki 23:12 · 2Ki 23:14 · Ps 74:7 · Ps 79:1 · +8 more

14Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:Cross-references: 2Chr 20:5 · 2Chr 24:20 · Jer 17:19 · Jer 19:2 · Jer 26:2 · Luke 21:37 · +1 more

15“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’”Cross-references: 2Chr 36:16 · Neh 9:17 · Neh 9:29 · Ps 58:2 · Jer 7:26 · Jer 17:23 · +3 more