7. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8. And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
9. And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.
10. Then shall you break the flask in the sight of the men that go with you,
11. And shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
12. Thus will I do unto this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city as Topheth:
13. And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Topheth, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14. Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,
15. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;