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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 tais av tawg

¹Yawmsaub hais li no tias, “Cia li mus yuav ib lub tais av ntawm tus Kws puab laujkaub av los mas coj cov kev txwj laus qee leej thiab cov pov thawj hlob qee leej, ²mus rau hauv lub hav Npeehinoo ncaj txojkev uas nkag lub Rooj Loog Txhais Laujkaub thiab piav tej lus uas kuv hais rau koj rau lawv mloog qhov ntawd. ³Koj yuav tsum hais tias, ‘Yuda tej vajntxwv thiab cov neeg Yeluxalees 'e, cia li mloog Yawmsaub tej lus. Yawmsaub uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus, uas yog cov Yixayee tus Vajtswv hais li no tias, Saib nawj, kuv yuav coj xwm txheej phem los raug lub chaw no ua rau txhua tus uas tau hnov rhiab pob ntseg, ⁴rau qhov cov neeg no tau tso kuv tseg thiab tau hlawv hmoov xyab xyeem rau luag tej dab uas lawv thiab lawv tej poj koob yawm txwv thiab Yuda tej vajntxwv tsis tau paub dua thiaj ua qias puas tsuas lub chaw no, thiab lawv ua rau tej neeg tsis txhaum li ntshav puv nkaus lub chaw no, ⁵thiab tib tej chaw siab teev dab Npa‑as thiab muab lawv tej tub hlawv xyeem rau Npa‑as, yog yam uas kuv tsis tau qhia kom lawv ua thiab tsis tau tso cai lossis xav tseg rau hauv kuv lub siab. ⁶Vim li no Yawmsaub hais tias, Saib nawj, lub caij lub nyoog tabtom los yuav txog mas yuav tsis hu lub chaw no tias Thaufe lossis hu tias lub hav Npeehinoo dua li lawm, tiamsis yuav hu tias lub hav Tua Pov Tseg. ⁷Kuv yuav ua rau tej uas Yuda thiab Yeluxalees npaj tseg lawd ploj tag rau ntawm lub chaw no, thiab ua rau ob tug tej neeg tuag hniav ntaj rau ntawm lawv cov yeeb ncuab xubntiag thiab tuag tag rau hauv cov uas nrhiav txov lawv txojsia txhais tes. Kuv yuav muab lawv tej cev tuag rau tej liaj dav saum nruab ntug thiab rau tej tsiaj qus hauv ntiajteb noj. ⁸Kuv yuav muab lub nroog no ua lub chaw uas luag ceeb thiab ntshai thiab thuam. Txhua tus uas hla mus yuav ceeb thiab ntshai thiab yuav thuam vim yog qhov uas raug kev puam tsuaj tag. ⁹Kuv yuav ua rau lawv noj lawv tej tub tej ntxhais li nqaij, thiab txhua tus yuav noj nws tej kwvtij zej zog li nqaij rau thaum raug luag vij thiab raug kev txom nyem nyuaj siab uas lawv cov yeeb ncuab thiab cov uas nrhiav txov lawv txojsia coj los raug lawv.’
¹⁰“Ces koj cia li muab lub tais av tsoo tawg tag tab meeg cov neeg uas nrog koj mus ntawd, ¹¹thiab hais rau lawv tias, ‘Yawmsaub uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus hais tias, Kuv yuav muab haiv neeg no thiab lub nroog no tsoo tawg ib yam li muab tus Kws puab laujkaub lub tais av tsoo tawg tag kho tsis tau li lawm. Yuav log neeg rau hauv Thaufe mus txog thaum tsis muaj chaw log lawm. ¹²Yawmsaub hais tias, Kuv yuav ua li no rau lub chaw no thiab cov neeg uas nyob hauv, thiaj ua rau lub nroog no zoo li Thaufe. ¹³Yeluxalees tej tsev thiab Yuda tej vajntxiv tej tsev, yog txhua lub tsev uas lawv hlawv hmoov xyab saum txheej tsev las tshav xyeem rau lub hnub lub hli tej hnub qub saum nruab ntug huvsi thiab hliv cawv txiv hmab xyeem rau luag tej dab, yuav qias puas tsuas ib yam li lub chaw Thaufe.’ ”
¹⁴Ces Yelemi txawm tawm ntawm Thaufe uas Yawmsaub txib nws mus cev lus ntawd los. Nws mus sawv ntsug hauv Yawmsaub lub tshav puam tuam tsev, thiab hais rau cov pejxeem sawvdaws tias, ¹⁵“Yawmsaub uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus, uas yog cov Yixayee tus Vajtswv hais li no tias, ‘Saib nawj, kuv tabtom coj tej xwm txheej phem huvsi uas kuv tau hais cia lawd los raug lub nroog no thiab nws tej moos huvsi, rau qhov lawv tawv ncauj lawv tsis yeem mloog kuv tej lus.’ ”