Jer 19 | EngLXX | STEP | Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and youshall bring some of the elders of the people, and of the priests;

Jeremiah 19

1 Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and youshall bringsome of the elders of the people, and of the priests; 2 and you shall go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children, which is atthe entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do you read there all these words which I shall speak to you: 3 and you shall say to them, Hear you⌃ the word of the Lord, you⌃ kings of Juda, and menof Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus says the Lord Godof Israel; Behold, Iwill bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle. 4 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, 5 and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commandednot, neither did I designthem in my heart: 6 Therefore, behold, the days come, says 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. 7 And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; andI 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. 8 And I will bring this city to desolation andmake it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague. 9 And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and theyshall eat every one the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemiesshall besiege them. 10 And you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with you, 11 and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and thiscity, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which can’t be mended again. 12 Thus will I do, says the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that thiscity may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin. 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be as a ruinousplace, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burnt incense upon their roofs toall the host of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to strange gods. 14 And Jeremias came fromthe place of the Fall, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the courtof the Lord's house: and said to all the people, Thus says the Lord; 15 Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon thevillages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck,that they might not hearken to my commands.