19:1 The Lord told Jeremiah, 1 “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. 2 Take with you 3 some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders 4 of the priests. 19:2 Go out to the part of the Hinnom Valley which is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. 5 Announce there what I tell you. 6
19:10 The Lord continued, 7 “Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you. 19:11 Tell them the Lord who rules over all says, 8 ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. 9 I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. 10 The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’ 11
19:14 Then Jeremiah left Topheth where the Lord had sent him to give that prophecy. He went to the Lord’s temple and stood 12 in its courtyard and called out to all the people. 19:15 “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all 13 says, ‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it 14 all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused 15 to pay any attention to what I have said!’”