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Jeremiah 19:12
“Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 19
Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,
and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.
Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:
and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house, and said to all the people:
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