Jeremiah 19:1-5 (New Revised Standard)
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Thus said the Lord: Go and buy a potter's earthenware jug. Take with you a some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,
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and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.
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You shall say: Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to bring such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
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Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,
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and gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it enter my mind;
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Jeremiah 19:1 - Syr Tg Compare Gk: Heb lacks [take with you]