Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel is foreshewed the desolation of the Jews for their sins.
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1Thus saith the Lord, Go and get 1a potter's earthen bottle, and take of 2the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2And go forth unto 1the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of athe east gate, and 2proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3And say, 1Hear ye the word of the Lord, 2O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; 3Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
41Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, 2whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, 3and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, 1which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
61Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called 2Tophet, nor 3The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7And 1I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and 2I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their 3carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8And 1I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9And I will cause them to eat the 1flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10Then 1shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; 1Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot abe made whole again: and they shall 2bury them in Tophet, till there be3no place to bury.
12Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city 1as Tophet:
13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses 1upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood 1in the court of the Lord's house; and said to all the people,
15Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, 1I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, 2that they might not hear my words.