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Jeremiah 19 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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<A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and thou shalt go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do thou read there all these words which I shall speak to thee: <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and thou shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I <i>will</i> bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design <i>them</i> in my heart: <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I will bring this city to desolation and <i>make it</i> a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbour in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with thee, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thus will I do, saith the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to strange gods.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Jeremias came from <i>the place</i> of the Fall, whither 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 saith the Lord; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, <i>that they might not</i> hearken to my commands.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>