1 Thus says Jehovah, Go and get a potter's Earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the East gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you,
3 And say, Hear you the word of Jehovah, Oh kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; I will bring evil upon this place, of which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, Nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command, nor speak, neither did it come into My Mind:
6 Therefore, the days come, says Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, Nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives: and their carcasses 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 a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues.
9 And I will cause them to eat the 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 distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,
11 And shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, until there is no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do to this place, says Jehovah, and to the inhabitants, and even make this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be impure as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, where Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah 's house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.