Thus says the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

and go out into the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate of Ḥarsit, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

And say, Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Yehuda, and inhabitants of Yerushalayim; Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever hears it, his ears shall tingle.

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Yehuda, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

they have built also the high places of the Ba῾al, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to the Ba῾al, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

therefore, behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Tofet, nor The valley of Ben-hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

And I will make void the counsel of Yehuda and Yerushalayim in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the beasts of the earth.

And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; every one that passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall afflict them.

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

And shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tofet, till there be no place to bury.

Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to its inhabitants, and make this city as Tofet:

and the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of Yehuda, shall be defiled as the place of the Tofet, with all the houses upon the roofs of which they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

Then came Yirmeyahu from the Tofet, to which the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house; and said to all the people,

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their necks stiff, that they might not hear my words.