(KJV) Jeremiah 19¹

⥃The Broken Jar

[1] Thus saith the Lord, Go² and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people³, and of the ancients of the priests;⁴ [2] And go forth unto the valley⁵ of the son of Hinnom, which [is] by the entry of the east gate⁶, and proclaim⁷ there the words that I shall tell thee, [3] And say, Hear⁸ 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 ears⁹ shall tingle. [4] Because they have¹⁰ forsaken me, and have estranged¹¹ this place, and have burned¹² incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled¹³ this place with the blood of innocents; [5] They have built also the high¹⁴ places of Baal, to burn¹⁵ their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which¹⁶ I commanded not, nor spake [it], neither¹⁷ came [it] into my mind: [6] Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this¹⁸ place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. [7] And I will make¹⁹ void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause²⁰ them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their²¹ carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. [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.²² [9] And I will cause them to eat the²³ 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. [10] Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,²⁴ [11] And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even²⁵ so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole²⁶ again: and they shall bury²⁷ [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury. [12] Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make²⁸ this city as Tophet: [13] And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled²⁹ as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon³⁰ whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured³¹ out drink offerings unto other gods. [14] Then came Jeremiah from³² Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood³³ in the court of the Lord’s house; and said to all the people, [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, because³⁴ they have hardened³⁵ their necks, that they³⁶ might not hear my words.