Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Topheth :
Then came Jeremiah from Topheth , whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house; and said to all the people,
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah , saying,
Pharaoh king of Egypt , and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
Then said the princes unto Baruch , Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah ; and let no man know where ye be.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Topheth , nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
They have built also the high places of Baal , to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal , which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt , furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Memphis shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
O inhabitant of Aroer , stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah , I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah ; Go ye not into Egypt : know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah , and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;