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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.’ ”

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¹This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests ²and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, ³and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. ⁴For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. ⁵They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. ⁶So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
⁷“ ‘In this place I will ruin⚓ the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals. ⁸I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. ⁹I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’
¹⁰“Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, ¹¹and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. ¹²This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the Lord. I will make this city like Topheth. ¹³The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”
¹⁴Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the Lord’s temple and said to all the people, ¹⁵“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’ ”