Jeremiah 19:1-5

1This is what the Lord says: “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 7Potsherd Gate, and 8proclaim there the words that I tell you,

3and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you 9kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold I am going to bring a 10disaster upon this place, at which the 11ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

4Since they have 12abandoned Me and have 13made this place foreign, and have burned 14sacrifices in it to 15other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled this place with the 16blood of the innocent

5and have built the 17high places of Baal to burn their 18sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I did not command nor speak of, nor did it ever enter My 19mind;