Yeremia 19

1 Sɛɛ na Awurade se: “Kɔ na kɔtɔ dɔtekuruwa fi ɔnwemfo nkyɛn. Fa nnipa no mpanyimfo no mu bi ne asɔfo no mu bi ka wo ho

Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

2 na fi adi kɔ Ben Hinom Bon a ɛbɛn Pɔthɛd Pon ano no. Ɛhɔ na pae mu ka nsɛm a meka kyerɛ wo no,

And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

3 se, ‘Muntie Awurade asɛm, mo Yuda ahemfo ne Yerusalemfo. Sɛɛ na Asafo Awurade Israel Nyankopɔn se. Muntie, mede amanehunu reba ha, na obiara a ɔbɛte no aso mu bɛyɛ no yonn.

And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

4 Efisɛ wɔagyaw me na wɔde ha ama ananafo anyame; wɔahyew afɔrebɔde wɔ so ama anyame a wɔn anaa wɔn agyanom, anaa Yuda ahemfo nhuu wɔn da, na wɔde mogya a edi bem ahyɛ ha ma.

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

5 Wɔasisi Baal sorɔnsorɔmmea sɛ wɔde ogya bɛhyew wɔn mmabarima sɛ afɔrebɔde ama Baal, ade a manhyɛ anaa mammɔ so, anaa amma mʼadwene mu.

They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt-offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke [it], neither came [it] into my mind:

6 Ɛno nti, monhwɛ yiye na nna bi reba, Awurade na ose, a nnipa remfrɛ ha se Tofet anaa Ben Hinom Bon bio, na mmom, Okum Bon.

Therefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

7 “‘Mɛsɛe Yuda ne Yerusalem nhyehyɛe wɔ ha. Mɛma wɔatotɔ wɔ afoa ano wɔ wɔn atamfo a wɔrehwehwɛ wɔn nkwa no anim, na mede wɔn afunu bɛma wim nnomaa ne asase so mmoa sɛ wɔn aduan.

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

8 Mɛsɛe saa kuropɔn yi na mayɛ no ahodwiriwde; wɔn a wotwa mu wɔ hɔ no nyinaa ho bedwiriw wɔn, na nʼapirakuru no nti wobedi ne ho fɛw.

And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

9 Mɛma wɔawe wɔn mmabarima ne wɔn mmabea nam, na wobefi ahohia a atamfo a wɔrehwehwɛ wɔn nkwa no anotua de bɛba wɔn so no mu awe wɔn ho wɔn ho nam.’

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.

10 “Afei bɔ kuruwa no wɔ wɔn a wɔka wo ho no anim ma wɔnhwɛ,

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

11 na ka kyerɛ wɔn se, ‘Sɛɛ na Asafo Awurade se: Mɛbɔ saa ɔman yi ne kuropɔn yi sɛnea wɔabɔ ɔnwemfo kuruwa yi a wɔrentumi nsiesie bio. Wobesie awufo wɔ Tofet kosi sɛ, ɛhɔ bɛyɛ ma.

And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.

12 Sɛɛ ara na mɛyɛ saa beae yi ne wɔn a wɔtete so, Awurade na ose. Mɛyɛ kuropɔn yi sɛ Tofet.

Thus will I do to this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and [even] make this city as Tophet:

13 Afi a ɛwɔ Yerusalem ne Yuda ahemfo ahemfi ho begu fi te sɛ Tofet ha. Afi a wɔhyew nnuhuam wɔ adan atifi maa ɔsoro asafo nyinaa na woguu nsa maa anyame foforo no.’”

And 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 upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

14 Afei Yeremia san fii Tofet, faako a Awurade somaa no se ɔnkɔhyɛ nkɔm wɔ hɔ no bae, na Obegyinaa Awurade asɔredan abangua mu na ɔka kyerɛɛ nnipa no nyinaa se,

Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,

15 “Sɛɛ na Asafo Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn se, ‘Muntie! Mede amanehunu a meka guu kuropɔn yi ne ho nkuraase no nyinaa so no bɛba wɔn so, efisɛ wɔyɛɛ asoɔden, na wɔantie me nsɛm.’”

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I 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, that they might not hear my words.