Jeremiah 19:1-5

1Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a 1potter’s earthenware 2jar, and take some of the 3elders of the people and some of the 45senior priests.

2Then go out to the 6valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and 7proclaim there the words that I tell you,

3and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O 8kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold I am about to bring a 9calamity upon this place, at which the 10ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

4Because they have 11forsaken Me and have 12made this an alien place and have burned 13sacrifices in it to 14other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the 15blood of the innocent

5and have built the 16high places of Baal to burn their 17sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My 18mind;