and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 19:11 in context
Jeremiah 19:8–14
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I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
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I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’
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“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,
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and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
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This is what I will do to this place,” says the LORD, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth.
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The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”
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Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house, and said to all the people:
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