Jer 19:4-9 | ESV | STEP | Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known ; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents ,

Jeremiah 19:4-9

4 ^aBecause the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; ^band because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5 ^cand have built the high places of Baal ^dto burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, ^ewhich I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— 6 therefore, ^fbehold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or ^gthe Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7 And in this place ^hI will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, ⁱand will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. ^jI will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth. 8 And I will make this city ^ka horror, ^la thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds. 9 ^mAnd I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor ⁿin the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’