WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.940 Chapter 19 Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, 00:06.500 --> 00:09.660 and take of the ancients of the people and of the ancients of the priests. 00:10.280 --> 00:14.540 And go forth into the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east 00:14.540 --> 00:19.880 gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, and say, Hear ye the word 00:19.880 --> 00:23.520 of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. 00:24.300 --> 00:29.080 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon 00:29.080 --> 00:29.680 this place. 00:30.200 --> 00:34.720 The witch, whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle, because they have forsaken 00:34.720 --> 00:39.740 me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other 00:39.740 --> 00:43.920 gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, 00:44.420 --> 00:46.720 and have filled this place with the blood of innocents. 00:47.360 --> 00:51.680 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for 00:51.680 --> 00:56.140 burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came 00:56.140 --> 00:57.060 it unto my mind. 00:57.760 --> 01:01.460 Therefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no 01:01.460 --> 01:05.980 more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of 01:05.980 --> 01:06.440 slaughter. 01:07.240 --> 01:11.760 And I will make void the council of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will 01:11.760 --> 01:15.340 cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them 01:15.340 --> 01:19.520 that seek their lives, and their carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls of 01:19.520 --> 01:21.420 the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 01:21.900 --> 01:24.760 And I will make this city desolate and in hissing. 01:25.540 --> 01:29.400 Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the 01:29.400 --> 01:30.380 plagues thereof. 01:30.940 --> 01:34.240 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their 01:34.240 --> 01:38.100 daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and 01:38.100 --> 01:42.600 straightness, wherewith their enemies and they that seek their lives shall 01:42.600 --> 01:43.280 straighten them. 01:44.460 --> 01:47.460 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 01:47.740 --> 01:52.380 and shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Even so will I break this 01:52.380 --> 01:56.080 people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel that cannot be made whole 01:56.080 --> 02:00.040 again, and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. 02:00.940 --> 02:04.180 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants 02:04.180 --> 02:06.700 thereof, and even make this city as Tophet. 02:07.300 --> 02:11.140 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be 02:11.140 --> 02:14.980 defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs 02:14.980 --> 02:18.620 they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out 02:18.620 --> 02:20.160 drink-offerings unto other gods. 02:21.040 --> 02:24.760 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy. 02:25.260 --> 02:28.020 And he stood in the court of the Lord's house, and said to all the people, 02:28.700 --> 02:33.100 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this 02:33.100 --> 02:37.000 city, and upon all her towns, all the evil that I have pronounced against it, 02:37.460 --> 02:41.700 because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.