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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耶和华如此说：“你去买陶匠的瓷瓶 ，你和⚓百姓中的长老、位尊的祭司
2出去到欣嫩子谷、哈珥西⚓的门口，在那里宣告我所吩咐你的话，
3说：‘犹大君王和耶路撒冷的居民哪，当听耶和华的话。万军之耶和华－以色列的上帝如此说：看哪，我必使灾祸临到这地方，凡听见的人都必耳鸣；
4因为他们和他们祖先，并犹大君王都离弃我，使这地方与我疏远⚓，在这里向素不认识的别神烧香，又使这地方遍满无辜人的血。
5他们建造巴力的丘坛，要在火中焚烧自己的儿女，作为燔祭献给巴力。这不是我命令的，不是我吩咐的，我心里也从来没有想过。
6因此，看哪，日子将到，这地方不再称为陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒称为杀戮谷。这是耶和华说的。
7我要在这地方使犹大和耶路撒冷的计谋落空，也必使他们在仇敌面前倒在刀下，倒在寻索其命的人手下。我要把他们的尸首给空中的飞鸟和地上的走兽作食物。
8我必使这城令人惊骇嘲笑；凡路过的，必因这城所遭的灾难惊骇嘲笑。
9仇敌和寻索其命的人追逼他们，使他们落在围困窘迫之中，我必使他们各人吃自己儿女的肉和朋友的肉。’
10“你要在跟你同去的人眼前打碎那瓶，
11对他们说：‘万军之耶和华如此说：我要打碎这民和这城，正如人打碎陶匠的器皿，不能再使其完整。他们要在陀斐特埋葬，甚至无处可葬。
12我必向这地方和其中的居民如此行，使这城与陀斐特一样。这是耶和华说的。
13耶路撒冷的房屋和犹大君王的宫殿，就是他们在其上向天上的万象烧香、向别神献浇酒祭的宫殿房屋，都必被玷污，和陀斐特一样。’”
14耶利米从耶和华差他去说预言的陀斐特回来，站在耶和华殿的院中对众百姓说：
15“万军之耶和华－以色列的上帝如此说：‘看哪，我必使我所说的一切灾祸临到这城和属它的城镇，因为他们硬着颈项不听我的话。’”