1 Thus said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “Go and get a potter’s earthen jug, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the kohenim.
2 “Then you shall go out to the Valley of Bĕn Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and shall proclaim there the words that I speak to you,
3 and shall say, ‘Hear the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, sovereigns of Yahuḏah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim. Thus said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “See, I am bringing evil on this place, that makes the ears tingle of all who hear it.
4 “Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it to other mighty ones whom neither they, their fathers, nor the sovereigns of Yahuḏah have known, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocents,
5 and have built the high places of Ba’al, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Ba’al, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My heart.
6 “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “that this place shall no more be called Topheth or the Valley of Bĕn Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
7 “And I shall pour out the counsel of Yahuḏah and Yerushalayim in this place, and I shall make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives. And I shall give their corpses as meat for the birds of the shamayim and for the beasts of the earth.
8 “And I shall make this city a ruin, and a hissing – everyone who passes by it is appalled and hisses because of all its plagues.
9 “And I shall make them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives distress them.” ’
10 “And you shall break the jug before the eyes of the men who go with you,
11 and shall say to them, ‘Thus said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, “Even so I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which one is unable to repair again. And let them bury them in Topheth till there is no place to bury.
12 “This is what I shall do to this place,” declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city like Topheth.
13 “And the houses of Yerushalayim and the houses of the sovereigns of Yahuḏah shall be as unclean as the place of Topheth, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the shamayim, and poured out drink offerings to other mighty ones.” ’ ”
14 And when Yirmeyahu returned from Topheth, where 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had sent him to naḇa, he stood in the courtyard of the House of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and said to all the people,
15 “Thus said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘See, I am bringing on this city and on all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My Words.’ ”