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          DASV: Jeremiah 19    

1 This is what the LORD says, "Go and buy a potter's clay jar,
and take some of the elders of the people and priests.
2 Go out into the Ben Hinnom Valley, through the entrance of
the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I will tell
you.
3 Say, "Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and
inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel, says, 'I will bring disaster on this place
that will make the ears of whoever hears it tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place,
and have burned incense in it to other gods, which neither they,
nor their fathers or kings of Judah have known, they have
filled this place with the blood of innocent children.
5 They have built the high places to Baal, to burn their sons
in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal. I never commanded or
told them to do that, in fact, such a thing never even crossed
my mind.'"
6 "So the days will come," says the LORD, "this place will no
more be called Topheth, nor The Ben Hinnom Valley, but The
Valley of Slaughter.
7 For I will thwart the plans of Judah and Jerusalem 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. Their dead bodies
I will give as food for the birds of the sky and the wild animals
of the earth.
8 I will make this city an object of astonishment, and a place
of ridicule; every one that passes by will be astonished and ridicule
it because of all its disasters.
9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters.
Everyone will eat the flesh of his friend, in the siege and
distress by which their enemies and those who seek their lives
will afflict them."

10 Now smash the clay jar in the sight of the those who are with you,
11 and tell them, "This is what the LORD of hosts says, Just like
this I will shatter this people and this city, as one shatters a
potter's vessel, so that it is impossible to repair. So they will
bury people in Topheth until there be no place left to bury them.
12 This is what I will do to this place," says the LORD, "and to
its inhabitants, even making this city a garbage dump like Topheth.
13 The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah,
which are defiled, will be like Topheth, even all the houses
upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the stars of
heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods."

14 Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent
him to prophesy. He stood in the court of the LORD's house,
and said to all the people:
15 "This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says,
'I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the disaster
that I have pronounced against it, because they have stubbornly
stiffened their neck refusing to listen to my words.'"

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