Jeremiah 19 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

The Broken Jar

This^H3541 is^H3541 what^H3541 the LORD^H3068 says^H559: “Go^H1980 and buy^H7069 a potter’s^H3335 earthenware^H2789 jar^H1228, and take some^H4480 of the elders^H2205 of the people^H5971 and some^H4480 of the [fn]senior^H2205 priests^H3548.

Jer 19:2

Jer 19:2“Then go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the [fn]Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you,

Jer 19:3

Jer 19:3and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold I am going to bring a disaster upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

Jer 19:4

Jer 19:4“Since they have abandoned Me and have made this place foreign, and have burned [fn]sacrifices in it to other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent

Jer 19:5

Jer 19:5and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I did not command nor speak of, nor did it ever enter My [fn]mind;

Jer 19:6

Jer 19:6therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter.

Jer 19:7

Jer 19:7“And I will frustrate the planning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will make their carcasses food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.

Jer 19:8

Jer 19:8“I will also turn this city into an object of horror and [fn]hissing; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and [fn]hiss because of all its [fn]disasters.

Jer 19:9

Jer 19:9“And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh during the siege and in the hardship with which their enemies and those who seek their life will torment them.”’

Jer 19:10

“Then you are to break^H7665 the jar^H1228 in the sight^H5869 of the men^H376 who accompany^H1980^H854 you,

Jer 19:11

Jer 19:11and say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of armies says: “To the same extent I will break this people and this city, just as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury their dead in Topheth, [fn]because there is no other place for burial.

Jer 19:12

Jer 19:12“This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,” declares the LORD, “so as to make this city like Topheth.

Jer 19:13

Jer 19:13“The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned [fn]sacrifices to all the heavenly [fn]lights and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

Jer 19:14

Then Jeremiah^H3414 came^H935 from Topheth^H8612, where^H834^H8033 the LORD^H3068 had sent^H7971 him to prophesy^H5012; and he stood^H5975 in the courtyard^H2691 of the LORD’S^H3068 house^H1004 and said^H559 to all^H3605 the people^H5971,

Jer 19:15

Jer 19:15“This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to listen to My words.’”

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NASB20 Footnotes

(19:1)

Or elders of the

(19:2)

I.e., pottery fragment

Or incense

Lit heart

Or whistling

Or whistle

Lit wounds

Or until there is no place left to bury

(19:13)

Or incense

(19:13)

Lit host; i.e., sun, stars, etc.

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