1 This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests2 and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,3 and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.4 For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal —something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.6 So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.7 "'In this place I will ruin "the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.8 I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.'10 "Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching,11 and say to them, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.12 This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.13 The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth —all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.'"14 Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the LORD's temple and said to all the people,15 "This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.'"

1 Hc dicit Dominus : Vade, et accipe lagunculam figuli testeam a senioribus populi, et a senioribus sacerdotum, 2 et egredere ad vallem filii Ennom, qu est juxta introitum port fictilis : et prdicabis ibi verba qu ego loquar ad te. 3 Et dices : [Audite verbum Domini,reges Juda, et habitatores Jerusalem :Hc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Isral :Ecce ego inducam afflictionem super locum istum,ita ut omnis qui audierit illam tinniant aures ejus,4 eo quod dereliquerint me,et alienum fecerint locum istum,et libaverunt in eo diis alienis,quos nescierunt, ipsi et patres eorum, et reges Juda,et repleverunt locum istum sanguine innocentum :5 et dificaverunt excelsa Baalim,ad comburendos filios suos igni in holocaustum Baalim :qu non prcepi, nec locutus sum,nec ascenderunt in cor meum.6 Propterea ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus,et non vocabitur amplius locus iste Topheth,et vallis filii Ennom,sed vallis occisionis.7 Et dissipabo consilium Juda et Jerusalem in loco isto :et subvertam eos gladio in conspectu inimicorum suorum,et in manu qurentium animas eorum :et dabo cadavera eorum escam volatilibus cli et bestiis terr.8 Et ponam civitatem hanc in stuporem, et in sibilum :omnis qui prterierit per eam obstupescet,et sibilabit super universa plaga ejus.9 Et cibabo eos carnibus filiorum suorum et carnibus filiarum suarum :et unusquisque carnem amici sui comedet in obsidione,et in angustia in qua concludent eos inimici eorum,et qui qurunt animas eorum.] 10 Et conteres lagunculam in oculis virorum qui ibunt tecum, 11 et dices ad eos : [Hc dicit Dominus exercituum :Sic conteram populum istum, et civitatem istam,sicut conteritur vas figuli,quod non potest ultra instaurari :et in Topheth sepelientur,eo quod non sit alius locus ad sepeliendum.12 Sic faciam loco huic, ait Dominus,et habitatoribus ejus,et ponam civitatem istam sicut Topheth.13 Et erunt domus Jerusalem,et domus regum Juda,sicut locus Topheth, immund,omnes domus in quarum domatibus sacrificaverunt omni militi cli,et libaverunt libamina diis alienis.]14 Venit autem Jeremias de Topheth, quo miserat eum Dominus ad prophetandum, et stetit in atrio domus Domini, et dixit ad omnem populum : 15 Hc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Isral : Ecce ego inducam super civitatem hanc, et super omnes urbes ejus, universa mala qu locutus sum adversum eam, quoniam induraverunt cervicem suam ut non audirent sermones meos.