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and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will also make this city an object of horror and of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>horrified and hiss because of all its <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>slaughtering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’ <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>because there is no <i>other</i> place for burial. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is what I will do to this place and its inhabitants,” declares Yahweh, “so as to make this city like Topheth. <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 Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the house of Yahweh and said to all the people: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.’”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>desolate</i>, cf. Lev 26:32<br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>striking</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>until there is no place</i> left <i>to bury</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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