Holman Christian Standard Bible

Jeremiah 19:9-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

9. I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.

10. “Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling with you,

11. and you are to proclaim to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.

12. I will do so to this place” — this is the declaration of the Lord — “and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.

13. The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth — all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

14. Jeremiah came back from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple, and proclaimed to all the people,

15. “This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city — and on all its dependent villages — all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.’ ”