Jeremiah 19:3-13

3and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O 1kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold I am about to bring a 2calamity upon this place, at which the 3ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle. 4Because they have 4forsaken Me and have 5made this an alien place and have burned 6sacrifices in it to 7other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the 8blood of the innocent 5and have built the 9high places of Baal to burn their 10sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My 11mind; 6therefore, behold, 12days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this place will no longer be called 13Topheth or 14the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter. 7I will 15make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and 16I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their 17carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. 8I will also make this city a 18desolation and an object of hissing; 19everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its 20disasters. 9I will make them 21eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’

10“Then you are to break the 22jar in the sight of the men who accompany you 11and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Just so will I 23break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will 24bury in Topheth 25because there is no other place for burial. 12This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,” declares the Lord, “so as to make this city like Topheth. 13The 26houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be 27defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the 28houses on whose rooftops they burned 29sacrifices to 30all the heavenly host and 31poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”