Jeremiah 19
1 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
Hæc dicit Dominus: Vade, et accipe lagunculam figuli testeam a senioribus populi, et a senioribus sacerdotum:
2 and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
Et egredere ad vallem filii Ennom, quæ est iuxta introitum portæ fictilis: et prædicabis ibi verba, quæ ego loquar ad te.
3 saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
Et dices: Audite verbum Domini reges Iuda, et habitatores Ierusalem: hæc dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Ecce ego inducam afflictionem super locum istum, ita ut omnis, qui audierit illam, tinniant aures eius:
4 because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Eo quod dereliquerint me, et alienum fecerint locum istum: et libaverunt in eo diis alienis, quos nescierunt ipsi, et patres eorum, et reges Iuda: et repleverunt locum istum sanguine innocentum.
5 They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
Et ædificaverunt excelsa Baalim ad comburendos filios suos igni in holocaustum Baalim: quæ non præcepi, nec locutus sum, nec ascenderunt in cor meum.
6 So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Propterea ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus: et non vocabitur amplius locus iste, Topheth, et Vallis filii Ennom, sed Vallis occisionis.
7 And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Et dissipabo consilium Iuda et Ierusalem in loco isto: et subvertam eos gladio in conspectu inimicorum suorum, et in manu quærentium animas eorum: et dabo cadavera eorum escam volatilibus cæli, et bestiis terræ.
8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Et ponam civitatem hanc in stuporem, et in sibilum: omnis, qui præterierit per eam, obstupescet, et sibilabit super universa plaga eius.
9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
Et cibabo eos carnibus filiorum suorum, et carnibus filiarum suarum: et unusquisque carnem amici sui comedet in obsidione, et in angustia, in qua concludent eos inimici eorum, et qui quærunt animas eorum.
10 Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
Et conteres lagunculam in oculis virorum, qui ibunt tecum.
11 and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
Et dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Sic conteram populum istum et civitatem istam, sicut conteritur vas figuli, quod non potest ultra instaurari: et in Topheth sepelientur, eo quod non sit alius locus ad sepeliendum.
12 This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
Sic faciam loco huic, ait Dominus, et habitatoribus eius: et ponam civitatem istam sicut Topheth.
13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
Et erunt domus Ierusalem, et domus regum Iuda sicut locus Topheth, immundæ: omnes domus, in quarum domatibus sacrificaverunt omni militiæ cæli, et libaverunt libamina diis alienis.
14 Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
Venit autem Ieremias de Topheth, quo miserat eum Dominus ad prophetandum, et stetit in atrio domus Domini, et dixit ad omnem populum:
15 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Ecce ego inducam super civitatem hanc, et super omnes urbes eius universa mala, quæ locutus sum adversum eam: quoniam induraverunt cervicem suam ut non audirent sermones meos.
