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Jeremiah 19

The Broken Jar

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Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a  apotter's earthenware  bjar, and take some of the  celders of the people and some of the  1 dsenior priests.

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"Then go out to the  avalley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and  bproclaim there the words that I tell you,

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and say, `Hear the word of the LORD, O  akings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold I am about to bring a  bcalamity upon this place, at which the  cears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

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"Because they have  aforsaken Me and have  bmade this an alien place and have burned  1sacrifices in it to  cother gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the  dblood of the innocent

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and have built the  ahigh places of Baal to burn their  bsons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My  1mind;

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therefore, behold,  adays are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called  bTopheth or  cthe valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.

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"I will  amake void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and  bI will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their  ccarcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

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"I will also make this city a  adesolation and an object of hissing;  beveryone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its  1disasters.

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"I will make them  aeat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them."'

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"Then you are to break the  ajar in the sight of the men who accompany you

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and say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Just so will I  abreak this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will  bbury in Topheth  1because there is no other place for burial.

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"This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.

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"The  ahouses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be  bdefiled like the place Topheth, because of all the  chouses on whose rooftops they burned  1sacrifices to  dall the heavenly host and  epoured out drink offerings to other gods.""'

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Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the  acourt of the LORD'S house and said to all the people:

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"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, `Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have  astiffened their necks so  bas not to heed My words.' "



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