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The Sign of the Broken Flask

¹Thus says the Lord: “Go and get a potter’s earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests. ²And go out to ⚓the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you, ³⚓and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will ⚓tingle.
⁴“Because they ⚓have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with ⚓the blood of the innocents ⁵⚓(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, ⚓which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), ⁶therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or ⚓the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. ⁷And 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 those who seek their lives; their ⚓corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. ⁸I will make this city ⚓desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. ⁹And I will cause them to eat the ⚓flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’
¹⁰⚓“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, ¹¹and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ⚓“Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be made whole again; and they shall ⚓bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury. ¹²Thus I will do to this place,” says the Lord, “and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet. ¹³And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled ⚓like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose ⚓roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and ⚓poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
¹⁴Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, 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: ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because ⚓they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words.’ ”

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Lub taig aav tawg

¹Yawmsaub has le nuav tas, “Ca le moog yuav ib lub taig aav ntawm tug Kws puab laujkaub aav lug mas coj cov kev txwj quas laug qee leej hab cov pov thawj hlub qee leej, ²moog rua huv lub haav Npeehinoo ncaaj txujkev kws nkaag lub Rooj Loog Txhais Laujkaub hab pav tej lug kws kuv has rua koj rua puab noog hov ntawd. ³Koj yuav tsum has tas, ‘Yuta tej vaajntxwv hab cov tuabneeg Yeluxalee 'e, ca le noog Yawmsaub tej lug. Yawmsaub kws muaj fwjchim luj kawg nkaus, kws yog cov Yixayee tug Vaajtswv has le nuav tas, Saib nawj, kuv yuav coj xwm txheej phem lug raug lub chaw nuav ua rua txhua tug kws tau nov rhab qhov ntsej, ⁴tsua qhov cov tuabneeg nuav tau tso kuv tseg hab tau hlawv moov xyaab xyeem rua luas tej daab kws puab hab puab tej laug hab Yuta tej vaajntxwv tsw tau paub dua txhad ua qas puag tsuas lub chaw nuav, hab puab ua rua tej tuabneeg tsw txhum le ntshaav puv nkaus lub chaw nuav, ⁵hab tib tej chaw sab teev daab Npa‑aa hab muab puab tej tub hlawv xyeem rua Npa‑aa, yog yaam kws kuv tsw tau qha kuas puab ua hab tsw tau tso cai lossws xaav tseg rua huv kuv lub sab. ⁶Vem le nuav Yawmsaub has tas, Saib nawj, lub caij lub nyoog saamswm lug yuav txug mas yuav tsw hu lub chaw nuav tas Thaufe lossws hu tas lub haav Npeehinoo dua le lawm, tassws yuav hu tas lub Haav Tua Pov Tseg. ⁷Kuv yuav ua rua tej kws Yuta hab Yeluxalee npaaj tseg lawd pluj taag rua ntawm lub chaw nuav, hab ua rua ob tug tej tuabneeg tuag nav ntaaj rua ntawm puab cov yeeb ncuab xubndag hab tuag taag rua huv cov kws nrhav txuv puab txujsa txhais teg. Kuv yuav muab puab tej cev tuag rua tej laj daav sau nruab ntug hab rua tej tsaj qus huv nplajteb noj. ⁸Kuv yuav muab lub nroog nuav ua lub chaw kws luas ceeb hab ntshai hab thuaj. Txhua tug kws hlaa moog yuav ceeb hab ntshai hab yuav thuaj vem yog qhov kws raug kev puam tsuaj taag. ⁹Kuv yuav ua rua puab noj puab tej tub tej ntxhais le nqaj, hab txhua tug yuav noj nwg tej kwvtij zej zog le nqaj rua thaus raug luas vej hab raug kev txom nyem nyuaj sab kws puab cov yeeb ncuab hab cov kws nrhav txuv puab txujsa coj lug raug puab.’
¹⁰“Tes koj ca le muab lub taig aav tsoo tawg taag taab meeg cov tuabneeg kws nrug koj moog hov, ¹¹hab has rua puab tas, ‘Yawmsaub kws muaj fwjchim luj kawg nkaus has tas, Kuv yuav muab haiv tuabneeg nuav hab lub nroog nuav tsoo tawg ib yaam le muab tug Kws puab laujkaub lub taig aav tsoo tawg taag khu tsw tau le lawm. Yuav log tuabneeg rua huv Thaufe moog txug thaus tsw muaj chaw log lawm. ¹²Yawmsaub has tas, Kuv yuav ua le nuav rua lub chaw nuav hab cov tuabneeg kws nyob huv, txhad ua rua lub nroog nuav zoo le Thaufe. ¹³Yeluxalee tej tsev hab Yuta tej vaajntxwv tej tsev, yog txhua lub tsev kws puab hlawv moov xyaab sau txheej tsev laag tshaav xyeem rua lub nub lub hli tej nub qub sau nruab ntug huvsw hab laub cawv txwv maab xyeem rua luas tej daab, yuav qas puag tsuas ib yaam le lub chaw Thaufe.’ ”
¹⁴Tes Yelemi txawm tawm ntawm Thaufe kws Yawmsaub khaiv nwg moog cev lug hov lug. Nwg moog sawv ntsug huv Yawmsaub lub tshaav puam tuam tsev, hab has rua cov pejxeem suavdawg tas, ¹⁵“Yawmsaub kws muaj fwjchim luj kawg nkaus, kws yog cov Yixayee tug Vaajtswv has le nuav tas, ‘Saib nawj, kuv saamswm coj tej xwm txheej phem huvsw kws kuv tau has ca lawd lug raug lub nroog nuav hab nwg tej moos huvsw, tsua qhov puab tawv ncauj puab tsw yeem noog kuv tej lug.’ ”