1. The Lord told me to go and buy a clay jar. He also told me to take some of the elders of the people and some of the older priests,
2. and to go through Potsherd Gate out to the Valley of Hinnom. There I was to proclaim the message that he would give me.
3. The Lord told me to say, “Kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem, listen to what I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will be stunned.