1 Thus said the LORD: Go, buy a potter's earthen flask. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests,
2 and go out toward the Valley of Ben-hinnom, at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; there proclaim the words which I will speak to you:
3 Listen to the word of the LORD, kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to bring such evil upon this place that all who hear of it will feel their ears tingle.
4 This is because they have forsaken me and alienated this place by burning in it incense to strange gods which neither they nor their fathers knew; and the kings of Judah have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
5 They have built high places for Baal to immolate their sons in fire as holocausts to Baal: such a thing as I neither commanded nor spoke of, nor did it ever enter my mind.
6 Therefore, days will come, says the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather, the Valley of Slaughter.
7 In this place I will foil the plan of Judah and Jerusalem; I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those that seek their lives. Their corpses I will give as food to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.
8 I will make this city an object of amazement and derision. Because of all its wounds, every passer-by will be amazed and will catch his breath.
9 I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another's flesh during the strict siege by which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them.
10 And you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who went with you,
11 and say to them: Thus says the LORD of hosts: Thus will I smash this people and this city, as one smashes a clay pot so that it cannot be repaired. And Topheth shall be a burial place, for lack of place to bury elsewhere.
12 Thus I will do to this place and to its inhabitants, says the LORD; I will make this city like Topheth.
13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the palaces of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth, all the houses upon whose roofs they burnt incense to the whole host of heaven and poured out libations to strange gods.
14 When Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, he stood in the court of the house of God and said to all the people:
15 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I will surely bring upon this city all the evil with which I threatened it, because they have stiffened their necks and have not obeyed my words.
Versículos relacionados com Jeremiah, 19:
Jeremiah 19 talks about the message that God gave to Jeremiah to convey to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. God commanded Jeremiah to buy a clay jar and go to the valley of ben-huminom to proclaim the message the Lord had given. The message was that God would bring about Judah and Jerusalem such a destruction that the ears of those who heard about it would be buzzing. Here are five verses related to the topics addressed in Jeremiah 19:
Isaiah 29:16: "You divert things, as if the potter were the same as the clay! he understands'?" This verse emphasizes that God is the potter and that we are the clay in his hands. Just as the potter has the power to shape the clay, God has the power to shape our lives.
Isaiah 45:9: "Woe to the one who contains with his creator! The shard among other clay shards! Can the clay say to what shapes him:" What are you doing? "Or:" Don't you have a skill "?" This verse continues with the analogy of the potter and the clay, emphasizing that we should not question or contend with God, our Creator.
Romans 9:21: "Or does not have the right potter over the clay, to make him a vase for honor and another, for dishonor?" This verse also talks about God as a potter and reminds us that He has the right to shape our lives the way He wants.
2 Corinthians 4:7: "But we have this treasure in clay vessels, so that the excellence of power is of God and not of us." This verse talks about the fact that although we are weak and fragile as clay vessels, we have a treasure in us that comes from God.
Revelation 2:27: "And he shall go go with an iron scepter and shatter them as clay objects;” This verse talks about the power and authority that Christ will have about those who refuse to repent of their sins.
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