THUS says Yahuah, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
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 you,
And say, Hear ye the Word of Yahuah, O kings of Yahudah, and inhabitants of Yerushalayim; Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other elohiym, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Yahudah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
They have built also the high places of Ba`al, to burn their sons with fire for ascending smoke offerings unto Ba`al, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahuah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
And I will make void the counsel of Yahudah and Yerushalayim 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 carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and את the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,
And shall say unto them, Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; 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.
Thus will I do unto this place, says Yahuah, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Topheth:
And the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of Yahudah, shall be defiled as 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 elohiym.
Then came Yirmeyahu from Topheth, whither Yahuah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahuah's house; and said to all the people,
Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns את all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.