1 耶和华这样说： "你去跟陶匠买一个瓦瓶， 要带着几位人民的长老和年长的祭司，
2 出到欣嫩子谷， 哈珥西（"哈珥西"意即"瓦片"）门的入口， 在那里你要宣告我将对你说的话。
3 你要说： ‘犹大列王和耶路撒冷的居民哪！ 你们要听耶和华的话。万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： 看哪！ 我必使灾祸临到这地方； 凡听见的， 都必耳鸣。
4 因为他们离弃了我， 把这地方玷污了， 在这地方向列神烧香。这些神是他们和他们的列祖， 以及犹大列王所不认识的； 他们又使这地方洒满无辜人的血。
5 他们筑了巴力的邱坛， 好用火焚烧自己的儿女， 作燔祭献给巴力。这不是我吩咐的， 我没有提说过， 也没有在我心里想过。
6 因此， 看哪！ 日子快到， 这地方必不再称为陀斐特或欣嫩子谷， 而要称为杀戮谷。’这是耶和华的宣告。
7 ‘我要在这地方使犹大和耶路撒冷的计谋失败， 也必使他们在仇敌面前倒毙于刀下， 死在寻索他们性命的人手中。我要把他们的尸体给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽作食物。
8 我要使这城变为荒凉， 成为被人嗤笑的对象； 每一个经过这里的， 都必因这城所遭受的一切创伤而惊骇， 并且嗤笑她。
9 在他们被围困和受压迫之中， 就是在仇敌和寻索他们性命的人压迫他们的时候， 我必使他们吞吃自己的儿女的肉， 各人也彼此吃对方的肉。’
10 "然后你要在跟你同去的人眼前， 把那瓶子打碎，
11 并对他们说： ‘万军之耶和华这样说： 我必照样打碎这人民和这城， 好像人打碎陶匠的瓦器一样， 不能再修补。人必在陀斐特埋葬尸体， 甚至无处可埋葬。
12 我必照样对待这地方和这地方的居民， 使这城像陀斐特一样。’这是耶和华的宣告。
13 ‘耶路撒冷的房屋和犹大列王的宫殿， 都要像陀斐特一样成为不洁； 人曾在这一切房屋宫殿的屋顶上， 向天上的万象烧香， 向别神浇奠祭。’"
14 耶利米从陀斐特， 就是从耶和华差遣他去说预言的地方回来， 他站在耶和华殿的院中， 对众民说：
15 "万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： ‘看哪！ 我必使我宣告攻击这城的一切灾祸， 临到这城和她附近的一切城镇， 因为他们硬着颈项， 不听从我的话。’"
1 Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; 2 and go forth unto 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 thee; 3 and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: 6 therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, 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 hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. 8 And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 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 in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 11 and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury. 12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth: 13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah’s house, and said to all the people: 15 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon 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.