Jeremias 19

1 Thus said Yahweh, "Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests; 2 and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. 3 Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, 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 children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind. 6 Therefore, behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.

7 "‘"I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. 8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. 9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them."’

10 "Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you, 11 and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: "Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury. 12 This is what I will do to this place," says Yahweh, "and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth. 13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods."’"

14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people: 15 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘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.’"

Te Pounamu Oneone i Wāwāhi

1 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: "Haere, hokona mai tētahi pounamu oneone a te kaihanga rīhi. Ka tango mai hoki i ētahi o ngā kaumātua o te iwi, i ētahi o ngā kaumātua o ngā tohunga; 2 ka haere ki te raorao o te tama a Hinomo, ki tērā i te tomokanga ki te Kūwaha Hahiti, ā, ka karanga i reira i ngā kupu e kōrerotia e ahau ki a koe; 3 kī atu: ‘Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowā, e ngā kīngi o Hūrā, e te hunga e noho ana i Hiruhārama. Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: Tēnei ahau te kawe nei i te kino ki tēnei wāhi, ā, ko ngā tāngata katoa e rongo ana, ka tīorooro ōna taringa. 4 Kua whakarere nei rātou i ahau, kua whakarerekētia e rātou tēnei wāhi, kua tahu whakakakara ki konei ki ngā atua kē, kīhai nei i mōhiotia e rātou, e rātou ko ō rātou mātua, e ngā kīngi hoki o Hūrā; ā, kua whakakīia e rātou tēnei wāhi ki te toto o te hunga kore hara. 5 Kua hangā hoki e rātou ngā wāhi tiketike o Paara, kia tahuna ai e rātou ā rātou tamariki ki te ahi hei tahunga tinana ki a Paara; he mea kīhai i whakahaua e ahau, kīhai i kōrerotia e ahau, kīhai anō hoki i puta ake i tōku ngākau. 6 Mō reira, nanā, kei te haere mai ngā rā, e ai tā Ihowā, e kore ai tēnei wāhi e huaina, ko Topete, Ko te Raorao o te tama a Hinomo rānei; engari, Ko te Raorao o te Parekura.

7 " ‘Nā, ka meinga e ahau kia hē te whakaaro o Hūrā rāua ko Hiruhārama ki tēnei wāhi, ā, ka meinga rātou e ahau kia hinga i te hoari i te aroaro o ō rātou hoariri, i te ringa anō o te hunga e whai ana kia whakamatea rātou; ā, ko ō rātou tinana ka hoatu e ahau hei kai mā ngā manu o te rangi, mā ngā kararehe hoki o te whenua. 8 Ā, ka meinga e ahau tēnei pā hei mīharotanga, hei whakahīanga; ko ngā tāngata katoa e haere i konei ka oho, ka whakahī ki ōna mate urutā katoa. 9 Ka meinga anō rātou e ahau kia kai i ngā kikokiko o ā rātou tama, i ngā kikokiko o ā rātou tamāhine, ā, ka kai rātou i ngā kikokiko o tōna hoa tata, o tōna hoa tata, i te whakapaenga, i te kōpaninga e kōpania ai rātou e ō rātou hoariri, e te hunga hoki e whai ana kia whakamatea rātou.’

10 "Kātahi koe ka wāhi i te pounamu i te tirohanga a ngā tāngata ka haere tahi atu nā koutou, 11 ā, ka mea atu ki a rātou: ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano: Ka rite tāku wāwāhi i tēnei iwi, i tēnei pā, ka pēnei me te wāhanga o te oko a te kaihanga rīhi, e kore nei e taea te tapitapi kia ora anō. Ā, ka tanu hoki rātou ki Topete, kia kore rā anō he wāhi hei tanumanga. 12 Ko tāku tēnei e mea ai ki tēnei wāhi, e ai tā Ihowā, ki ōna tāngata hoki, kia meinga rā anō tēnei pā kia rite ki Topete. 13 Ā, ko ngā whare o Hiruhārama, me ngā whare o ngā kīngi o Hūrā, kua whakapokea nei, ka rite ki tēnei wāhi, ki Topete, arā ko ngā whare katoa i tahu whakakakara ai rātou i runga i ngā tuanui ki te ope katoa o te rangi, i ringihia ai hoki e rātou he ringihanga ki ngā atua kē.’ "

14 Kātahi ka haere mai a Heremaia i Topete, i te wāhi i ungā ai ia e Ihowā ki te poropiti, ā, tū ana ia i te marae o te whare o Ihowā, ā, ka mea ki te iwi katoa, 15 "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: ‘Nanā, ka kawea mai e ahau ki runga ki tēnei pā, ā, ki runga hoki i ōna pā katoa, te kino katoa i kōrerotia rā e ahau mō konei; nō te mea kua whakapakeketia e rātou ō rātou kakī, kia kore ai rātou e rongo ki āku kupu.’ "