1Thus said to me LORD JEHOVAH: “Go and buy a pitcher of a Potter and take with you some Elders of the people and some Elders of the Priests 2And come out to the Valley of BarHennom that is in the entrance of the gate of Kharsith, and proclaim there the words that I tell you 3And say: “Hear the word of LORD JEHOVAH, Kings of Judea and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, God of Israel: ‘Behold, I bring evil on this place, so that everyone who will hear it, his ears will tingle’ 4Because they have forsaken me and they defiled this place, and they placed in it incense to other gods which they and their fathers and the Kings of Judea had not known, and they filled this region with innocent blood 5And they built high places to Baal to burn their children in a burning fire to Baal, that I have not commanded, neither have I spoken, nor did I bring to my heart 6Because of this, behold, days are coming, says LORD JEHOVAH, and this place will not be called again Taphat and “The Valley in BarHennom”, but only “The Valley of the Slain” 7And I shall destroy the counsel of Judea and of Jerusalem in this place, and I shall cast them by the sword in front of their enemies, by the hand of those who seek their lives, and I shall give their corpses as food for the bird of the sky and for the beast of the Earth 8And I shall make this city a horror and a hissing, and everyone who passes by it shall be dumbfounded and shall hiss at all its plagues 9And I shall feed them the flesh of their sons and of their daughters, and each man shall eat the body of his neighbor in the siege, and in the affliction that their enemies and those who seek their soul shall inflict on them

10And break the pitcher before the eyes of the men who go with you 11And say to them: “Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, ‘In this way I shall break this people and this city, as this potter’s vessel is broken that cannot be mended again, and in Taphat they shall bury them for lack of a place to bury 12In this way I shall do to this region and to its inhabitants, says LORD JEHOVAH, and I shall make this city as Taphat 13And the households of Jerusalem and the houses of Kings of Judea shall be as the defiled place of Taphat, all households which have offered incense on their rooftops to all the host of Heaven, and poured out a drink offering to other gods

14And Jeremiah came from Taphat, because LORD JEHOVAH had sent him to prophesy there, and he stood in the court of the house of LORD JEHOVAH, and said to all the people 15“Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I bring on this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I spoke against it, for they have hardened their neck so that they would not hear my words