Jeremiah 19 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Broken Jar

Jer 19:1Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the Zakenim of the people, and of the Zakenim of the Kohanim;

Jer 19:2

Jer 19:2and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

Jer 19:3

Jer 19:3and say, Hear you the word of the LORD, kings of Yehudah, and inhabitants of Yerushalayim: thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

Jer 19:4

Jer 19:4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Yehudah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Jer 19:5

Jer 19:5and have built the high places of Ba`al, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Ba`al; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

Jer 19:6

Jer 19:6therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tofet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

Jer 19:7

Jer 19:7I will make void the counsel of Yehudah and Yerushalayim in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the eretz.

Jer 19:8

Jer 19:8I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

Jer 19:9

Jer 19:9I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

Jer 19:10

Jer 19:10Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

Jer 19:11

Jer 19:11and shall tell them, Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Tofet, until there be no place to bury.

Jer 19:12

Jer 19:12Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Tofet:

Jer 19:13

Jer 19:13and the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of Yehudah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Tofet, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

Jer 19:14

Jer 19:14Then came Yirmeyahu from Tofet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to all the people:

Jer 19:15

Jer 19:15Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el, 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.

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Jeremiah 19 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Broken Jar

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