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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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破碎的瓶
1耶和華如此說：「你去買陶匠的瓷瓶，你和⚓百姓中的長老、位尊的祭司
2出去到欣嫩子谷、哈珥西⚓的門口，在那裏宣告我所吩咐你的話，
3說：『猶大君王和耶路撒冷的居民哪，當聽耶和華的話。萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：看哪，我必使災禍臨到這地方，凡聽見的人都必耳鳴；
4因為他們和他們祖先，並猶大君王都離棄我，使這地方與我疏遠⚓，在這裏向素不認識的別神燒香，又使這地方遍滿無辜人的血。
5他們建造巴力的丘壇，要在火中焚燒自己的兒女，作為燔祭獻給巴力。這不是我命令的，不是我吩咐的，我心裏也從來沒有想過。
6因此，看哪，日子將到，這地方不再稱為陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒稱為殺戮谷。這是耶和華說的。
7我要在這地方使猶大和耶路撒冷的計謀落空，也必使他們在仇敵面前倒在刀下，倒在尋索其命的人手下。我要把他們的屍首給空中的飛鳥和地上的走獸作食物。
8我必使這城令人驚駭嘲笑；凡路過的，必因這城所遭的災難驚駭嘲笑。
9仇敵和尋索其命的人追逼他們，使他們落在圍困窘迫之中，我必使他們各人吃自己兒女的肉和朋友的肉。』
10「你要在跟你同去的人眼前打碎那瓶，
11對他們說：『萬軍之耶和華如此說：我要打碎這民和這城，正如人打碎陶匠的器皿，不能再使其完整。他們要在陀斐特埋葬，甚至無處可葬。
12我必向這地方和其中的居民如此行，使這城與陀斐特一樣。這是耶和華說的。
13耶路撒冷的房屋和猶大君王的宮殿，就是他們在其上向天上的萬象燒香、向別神獻澆酒祭的宮殿房屋，都必被玷污，和陀斐特一樣。』」
14耶利米從耶和華差他去說預言的陀斐特回來，站在耶和華殿的院中對眾百姓說：
15「萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：『看哪，我必使我所說的一切災禍臨到這城和屬它的城鎮，因為他們硬着頸項不聽我的話。』」