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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 Hub Tawg

¹Tus TSWV kom kuv mus yuav ib lub hub. Nws kom kuv coj cov txwjlaug thiab cov povthawj laus qee leej ²tawm ntawm lub Roojvag Txhais laujkaub mus rau tom lub Hav Hinoos thiab qhia tus TSWV tej lus rau lawv. ³Tus TSWV kom hais rau cov Yudas cov vajntxwv thiab cov neeg uas nyob hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees hais tias, “Nej cia li mloog kuv uas yog tus TSWV cov Yixalayees tus Vajtswv uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus tej lus. Kuv yuav tso kev puastsuaj los rau ntawm thaj chaw no kom tej neeg uas hnov zaj no xav tsis thoob. ⁴Kuv yuav ua li no rau qhov sawvdaws tso kuv tseg thiab mus tua tsiaj hlawv fij rau luag tej vajtswv ua rau qhov chaw no tsis huv lawm. Tej vajtswv ntawd yog tej uas lawv, lawv cov yawgkoob thiab lawv cov vajntxwv tsis tau paub dua li. Lawv tua cov neeg uas tsis muaj txim ntau leej rau ntawm thaj chaw no, ⁵thiab lawv teeb ntau lub thaj rau lawv tua lawv tej menyuam hlawv fij rau Npa-as. Kuv tsis tau samhwm kom lawv ua; kuv tsis tau xav txog tej ntawd li. ⁶Tus TSWV hais tias vim lawv ua li ntawd muaj ib hnub twg luag yuav tsis hu thaj chaw ntawd ua Taufes lossis lub Hav Hinoos lawm, tiamsis luag yuav hu ua lub Hav Tua Neeg. ⁷Kuv yuav rhuav cov Yudas thiab cov neeg uas nyob hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees tej tswvyim rau ntawm thaj chaw no. Kuv yuav cia lawv cov yeebncuab kovyeej lawv thiab muab lawv tua tuag tas rau hauv tshavrog. Kuv cia tej noog thiab tej tsiaj nruab nrag noj lawv. ⁸Kuv yuav tso kev puastsuaj los rau hauv lub nroog no. Txhua tus neeg uas dua kev tuaj pom tej xwm no lawv yuav poob siab thiab xav tsis thoob li. ⁹Yeebncuab yuav tuaj vij lub nroog thiab nrhiav kev tua cov neeg uas nyob hauv. Vim yeebncuab vij lub nroog, luag zov nruj heev, ua rau cov neeg nyob hauv muaj kev tshaib nqhis thiab txomnyem kawg, lawv ib leeg yuav tua ib leeg noj thiab tua lawv tej menyuam noj.”
¹⁰Tom qab ntawd tus TSWV kom kuv tsoo lub hub tabmeeg cov neeg uas nrog kuv mus ntawd ¹¹thiab kom kuv qhia tus TSWV tus uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus tej lus rau lawv hais tias, “Kuv yuav ntaus cov neeg no thiab rhuav lub nroog no ib yam li muab lub hub no tsoo tawg tas, tsis muaj leejtwg yuav muab lub hub no rov sib lo tau. Luag yuav coj tej neeg tuag mus faus rau hauv Taufes, rau qhov tsis muaj lwm thaj chaw faus tuag lawm. ¹²Kuv hais rau nej hais tias kuv yuav ua rau lub nroog no thiab cov neeg uas nyob hauv ib yam li ua rau Taufes ntag. ¹³Tej tsev hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees, cov Yudas cov vajntxwv tej tsev, thiab saum tej rutsev uas cov neeg mus hlawv hmoov tshuaj tsw qab fij rau tej hnubqub thiab hliv cawv fij rau luag tej vajtswv puavleej tsis huv ib yam li Taufes.”
¹⁴Tom qab ntawd kuv txawm tawm hauv Taufes, qhov chaw uas tus TSWV txib kuv mus qhia nws tej lus los. Kuv mus sawv ntawm lub tshavpuam uas nyob sab nraum lub Tuamtsev thiab qhia rau sawvdaws hais tias ¹⁵tus TSWV uas yog cov Yixalayees tus Vajtswv uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus hais tias, “Kuv yuav rau txim rau lub nroog no thiab tej zos uas nyob ibncig ze no, raws li uas kuv twb hais tseg lawm, rau qhov nej tawv ncauj thiab tsis mloog kuv lus.”