Jer 19:11 | NET2full | STEP | Tell them the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says , ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel that is broken beyond repair . The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’

‏ Jeremiah 19:11

11 Tell them the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ^{▼▼tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of Armies.” For this title see the study note on 2:19. The translation attempts to avoid the confusion of embedding quotes within quotes by reducing this one to an indirect quote.} ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. ^{▼▼tn The adverb “Thus” or “Like this” normally points back to something previously mentioned. See, e.g., Exod 29:35; Num 11:15; 15:11; Deut 25:9.} I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel that is broken beyond repair. ^{▼▼tn Heb “Like this I will break this people and this city, just as one breaks the vessel of a potter that is not able to be repaired.”} The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’ ^{▼▼sn See Jer 7:32-33 for parallels.}