1. The Lord said:Jeremiah, go to the pottery shop and buy a clay jar. Then take along some of the city officials and leading priests
2. and go to Hinnom Valley, just outside Potsherd Gate. Tell the people that I have said:
3. I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and you kings of Judah and you people of Jerusalem had better pay attention. I am going to bring so much trouble on this valley that everyone who hears about it will be shocked.
12-13. I will make Jerusalem as unclean as Topheth, by filling the city with your dead bodies. I will do this because you and your kings have gone up to the roofs of your houses and burnt incense to the stars in the sky, as though they were gods. And you have given sacrifices of wine to foreign gods.