예레미야 19

1여호와께서 이같이 말씀하시되 가서 토기장이의 오지병을 사고 백성의 어른들과 제사장의 어른 몇 사람을 데리고 2하시드 문 어귀 곁에 있는 힌놈의 아들의 골짜기로 가서 거기서 내가 네게 이른 말을 선포하여 3이르기를 너희 유다 왕들과 예루살렘 거민아 여호와의 말씀을 들으라 만군의 여호와 이스라엘의 하나님이 이같이 말씀하시되 보라 내가 이곳에 재앙을 내릴 것이라 무릇 그것을 듣는 자의 귀가 진동하리니 4이는 그들이 나를 버리고 이곳을 불결케 하며 이곳에서 자기와 자기 열조와 유다 왕들의 알지 못하던 다른 신들에게 분향하며 무죄한 자의 피로 이곳에 채웠음이며 5또 그들이 바알을 위하여 산당을 건축하고 자기 아들들을 바알에게 번제로 불살라 드렸나니 이는 내가 명하거나 뜻한 바가 아니니라 6그러므로 나 여호와가 말하노라 보라 다시는 이곳을 도벳이나 힌놈의 아들의 골짜기라 칭하지 아니하고 살륙의 골짜기라 칭하는 날이 이를 것이라 7내가 이곳에서 유다와 예루살렘의 모계를 무효케 하여 그들로 그 대적 앞과 생명을 찾는 자의 손의 칼에 엎드러지게 하고 그 시체를 공중의 새와 땅 짐승의 밥이 되게 하며 8이 성으로 놀람과 모욕거리가 되게 하리니 그 모든 재앙을 인하여 지나는 자마다 놀라며 모욕할 것이며 9그들이 그 대적과 그들의 생명을 찾는 자에게 둘러싸여 곤핍을 당할 때에 내가 그들로 그 아들의 고기, 딸의 고기를 먹게 하고 또 각기 친구의 고기를 먹게 하리라 하셨다 하고 10너는 함께 가는 자의 목전에서 그 오지병을 깨뜨리고 11그들에게 이르기를 만군의 여호와께서 이같이 말씀하시되 사람이 토기장이의 그릇을 한번 깨뜨리면 다시 완전하게 할 수 없나니 이와 같이 내가 이 백성과 이 성을 파하리니 그들을 매장할 자리가 없도록 도벳에 장사하리라 12나 여호와가 말하노라 내가 이곳과 그 중 거민에게 이같이 행하여 이 성으로 도벳 같게 할 것이라 13예루살렘 집들과 유다 왕들의 집들 곧 그 집들이 그 집 위에서 하늘의 만상에 분향하고 다른 신들에게 전제를 부음으로 더러워졌은즉 도벳 땅처럼 되리라 하셨다 하라 14예레미야가 여호와께서 자기를 보내사 예언하게 하신 도벳에서 돌아와 여호와의 집 뜰에 서서 모든 백성에게 말하되 15만군의 여호와 이스라엘의 하나님이 말씀하시되 보라 내가 이 성에 대하여 선언한 모든 재앙을 이 성과 그 모든 촌락에 내리리니 이는 그 목을 곧게 하여 내 말을 듣지 아니함이니라 하셨다 하라

1Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; 2and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you; 3and say, Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. 4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn’t know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: 6therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. 7I 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 hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. 8I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. 9I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them. 10Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you, 11and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury. 12Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth: 13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods. 14Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people: 15Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.

1Zo zegt de HEERE: Ga henen en koop een pottenbakkerskruik, en neem tot u van de oudsten des volks, en van de oudsten der priesteren. 2En ga uit naar het dal des zoons van Hinnom, dat voor de deur der Zonnepoort is, en roep aldaar uit de woorden, die Ik tot u spreken zal; 3En zeg: Hoort des HEEREN woord, gij koningen van Juda en inwoners van Jeruzalem! Alzo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen, de God Israels: Ziet, Ik zal een kwaad brengen over deze plaats, van hetwelk een ieder, die het hoort, zijn oren klinken zullen; 4Omdat zij Mij verlaten, en deze plaats vervreemd, en andere goden daarin gerookt hebben die zij niet gekend hebben, zij, noch hun vaderen, noch de koningen van Juda; en hebben deze plaats vervuld met bloed der onschuldigen. 5Want zij hebben de hoogten van Baal gebouwd, om hun zonen met vuur te verbranden, aan Baal tot brandofferen; hetwelk Ik niet geboden, noch gesproken heb, noch in Mijn hart is opgekomen? 6Daarom, ziet, de dagen komen, spreekt de HEERE, dat deze plaats niet meer zal genoemd worden het Tofeth, of dat des zoons van Hinnom, maar Moorddal. 7Want Ik zal den raad van Juda en Jeruzalem in deze plaats verijdelen, en zal hen voor het aangezicht hunner vijanden doen vallen door het zwaard, en door de hand dergenen, die hun ziel zoeken; en Ik zal hun dode lichamen het gevogelte des hemels en het gedierte der aarde tot spijze geven. 8En Ik zal deze stad zetten tot een ontzetting en tot een aanfluiting; al wie voorbij haar gaat, zal zich ontzetten en fluiten over al haar plagen. 9En Ik zal hunlieden het vlees hunner zonen en het vlees hunner dochteren doen eten, en zij zullen eten, een iegelijk het vlees zijns naasten, in de belegering en in de benauwing, waarmede hen hun vijanden, en die hun ziel zoeken, benauwen zullen. 10Dan zult gij de kruik verbreken voor de ogen der mannen, die met u gegaan zijn; 11En gij zult tot hen zeggen: Zo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen: Alzo zal Ik dit volk en deze stad verbreken, gelijk als men een pottenbakkersvat verbreekt, dat niet weder geheeld kan worden; en zij zullen hen in Tofeth begraven, omdat er geen andere plaats zal zijn om te begraven. 12Zo zal Ik deze plaats doen, spreekt de HEERE, en haar inwoners; en dat om deze stad te stellen als een Tofeth. 13En de huizen van Jeruzalem en de huizen der koningen van Juda zullen, gelijk alle plaatsen van Tofeth, onrein worden, met al de huizen, op welker daken zij aan al het heir des hemels gerookt en aan vreemde goden drankofferen geofferd hebben. 14Toen nu Jeremia van Tofeth kwam, waarhenen hem de HEERE gezonden had, om te profeteren, stond hij in het voorhof van des HEEREN huis, en zeide tot al het volk: 15Zo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen, de God Israels: Ziet, Ik zal over deze stad, en over al haar steden, al het kwaad brengen, dat Ik over haar gesproken heb; omdat zij hun nek verhard hebben, om Mijn woorden niet te horen.