Jeremiah 18 - 19

The Potter and the Clay

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 "Arise, and go down to q the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words." 3 So I went down to r the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. 4 And the vessel he was making of clay was s spoiled in the potter's hand, and t he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6 "O house of Israel, u can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. v Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will w pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, x turns from its evil, y I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will w build and plant it, 10 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. 11 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. z Return, every one from his evil way, and a amend your ways and your deeds.'

12 "But they say, b 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to c the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

13 "Therefore thus says the Lord:
d Ask among the nations,
Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
has done e a very horrible thing.
 14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave
the crags of Sirion? 1
Do the mountain waters run dry, 2
the cold flowing streams?
 15 f But my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to g false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
h in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
i not the highway,
 16 making their land j a horror,
a thing j to be hissed at forever.
k Everyone who passes by it is horrified
l and shakes his head.
 17 m Like the east wind n I will scatter them
before the enemy.
o I will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity."

18 Then they said, p "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, q for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. r Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words."

19 Hear me, O Lord,
and s listen to the voice of my adversaries.
 20 t Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet u they have dug a pit for my life.
v Remember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.
 21 Therefore w deliver up their children to famine;
give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless x and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
 22 y May a cry be heard from their houses,
when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!
For u they have dug a pit to take me
z and laid snares for my feet.
 23 Yet a you, O Lord, know
all their plotting to kill me.
b Forgive not their iniquity,
nor blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.

Jeremiah 19

The Broken Flask

1 Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy c a potter's earthenware d flask, and take some of e the elders of the people and some of e the elders of the priests, 2 and go out f to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. 3 You shall say, g 'Hear the word of the Lord, h O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that i the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. 4 j Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; k and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5 l and have built the high places of Baal l to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, m which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind - 6 therefore, n behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or o the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7 And in this place p I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, q and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. r I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth. 8 And I will make this city s a horror, s a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds. 9 t And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor u in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.'

10 "Then v you shall break w the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, 11 and shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, x as one breaks a potter's vessel, y so that it can never be mended. z Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury. 12 Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city a like Topheth. 13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah - b all the houses on whose c roofs offerings have been offered d to all the host of heaven, and e drink offerings have been poured out to other gods - shall be defiled a like the place of Topheth.'"

14 Then Jeremiah came from f Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, g and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people: 15 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, h because they have stiffened their neck, i refusing to hear my words."

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:1
    Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
    1 Chronicles 4:23
    These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service.
    Zechariah 11:13
    Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" - the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:1
    Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
    1 Chronicles 4:23
    These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service.
    Zechariah 11:13
    Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" - the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 13:7
    Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
  4. Cross References
    Romans 9:21
    Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 45:9
    Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
    Romans 9:20 - 24
    But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?
  6. Cross References
    Job 10:9
    Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
    Isaiah 64:8
    But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:10
    See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.
    Jeremiah 42:10
    If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:21
    But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 26:3
    It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.
    Jeremiah 26:13
    Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.
    Jeremiah 26:19
    Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.
    Judges 2:18
    Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
    Jonah 3:10
    When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:7
    If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 35:15
    I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, 'Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.' But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.
    2 Kings 17:13
    Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
    Jonah 3:8
    But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:3
    Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.
    Jeremiah 25:5
    Saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
    Jeremiah 35:15
    I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, 'Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.' But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.
  13. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:25
    Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved foreigners, and after them I will go.
  14. Cross References
    Jeremiah 3:17
    At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
  15. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:10 - 11
    For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:30
    An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:13
    For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
    Jeremiah 2:32
    Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
    Jeremiah 17:13
    O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
  18. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:5
    Thus says the Lord : "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
    Jeremiah 10:15
    They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
    Jeremiah 16:19
    O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
  19. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:16
    Thus says the Lord : "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.
  20. Cross References
    Isaiah 57:14
    And it shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way.
  21. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:8
    And I will make this city a horror, a thing to ...
    Jeremiah 25:9
    Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the n...
    Jeremiah 25:11
    This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste...
    Jeremiah 25:18
    Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings an...
    Jeremiah 49:13
    For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, ...
    Jeremiah 49:17
    Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes...
    Jeremiah 50:13
    Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not ...
    Jeremiah 51:37
    And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the h...
    2 Chronicles 29:8
    Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah a...
  22. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:8
    And I will make this city a horror, a thing to ...
    Jeremiah 25:9
    Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the n...
    Jeremiah 25:11
    This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste...
    Jeremiah 25:18
    Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings an...
    Jeremiah 49:13
    For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, ...
    Jeremiah 49:17
    Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes...
    Jeremiah 50:13
    Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not ...
    Jeremiah 51:37
    And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the h...
    2 Chronicles 29:8
    Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah a...
  23. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:13
    Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.
    Lamentations 2:15
    All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?
  24. Cross References
    Job 16:4
    I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.
    Psalms 22:7
    All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads.
    Matthew 27:39
    And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads
  25. Cross References
    Genesis 41:6
    And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thi...
    Genesis 41:23
    Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the...
    Genesis 41:27
    The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after...
    Exodus 10:13
    So Moses stretched out his staff over the land ...
    Job 27:21
    The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it s...
    Psalms 48:7
    By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tar...
    Ezekiel 27:26
    Your rowers have brought you out into the high ...
    Hosea 13:15
    Though he may flourish among his brothers, the ...
    Jonah 4:8
    When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching ea...
  26. Cross References
    Jeremiah 13:24
    I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.
  27. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:27
    Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!
  28. Cross References
    Jeremiah 11:19
    But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.
  29. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:8
    The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord ?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.
    Jeremiah 5:13
    The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'
    Jeremiah 5:31
    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
    Jeremiah 6:13
    For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
  30. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:3
    They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
    Jeremiah 9:8
    Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
    Job 5:21
    You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
    Psalms 31:20
    In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
  31. Cross References
    Psalms 35:1
    Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!
    Isaiah 49:25
    For thus says the Lord : "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
  32. Cross References
    Psalms 35:12
    They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.
  33. Cross References
    Psalms 35:7
    For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
    Psalms 57:6
    They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah
    Psalms 119:85
    The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.
  34. Cross References
    Nehemiah 13:14
    Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.
  35. Cross References
    Psalms 109:10
    May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
  36. Cross References
    Psalms 109:9
    May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
  37. Cross References
    Jeremiah 20:16
    Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon.
  38. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:20
    Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
  39. Cross References
    Psalms 140:5
    The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah
  40. Cross References
    Psalms 35:22
    You have seen, O Lord ; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!
  41. Cross References
    Nehemiah 4:5
    Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.
  42. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:2
    "Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words."
  43. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:10
    Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you.
  44. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:2
    And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
    2 Kings 23:1
    Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.
    Ezekiel 8:1
    In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.
  45. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:2
    And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
    2 Kings 23:1
    Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.
    Ezekiel 8:1
    In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.
  46. Cross References
    Joshua 15:8
    Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite ( that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
  47. Cross References
    Jeremiah 17:20
    And say: 'Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.
  48. Cross References
    Jeremiah 13:13
    Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  49. Cross References
    1 Samuel 3:11
    Then the Lord said to Samuel, "Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
    2 Kings 21:12
    Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
  50. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:16
    And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  51. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:16
    Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
    Jeremiah 2:34
    Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
  52. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:31
    And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
    Jeremiah 32:35
    They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
    Leviticus 18:21
    You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
  53. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:31
    And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
    Jeremiah 32:35
    They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
    Leviticus 18:21
    You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
  54. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:31
    And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
    Jeremiah 32:35
    They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
    Deuteronomy 17:3
    And has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden.
  55. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:32
    Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.
  56. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:2
    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.
  57. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:3
    And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers.
  58. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:17
    I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
  59. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:33
    And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.
  60. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:16
    Making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
  61. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:16
    Making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
  62. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:29
    You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you s...
    Deuteronomy 28:53
    And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the f...
    Isaiah 9:20
    They slice meat on the right, but are still hun...
    Lamentations 2:20
    Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt...
    Lamentations 4:10
    The hands of compassionate women have boiled th...
    Ezekiel 5:10
    Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your ...
  63. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:53
    And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
    Deuteronomy 28:55
    So that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
    Deuteronomy 28:57
    Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
  64. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:63 - 64
    When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates.
  65. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:1
    Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
  66. Cross References
    Psalms 2:9
    You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
    Isaiah 30:14
    And its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
    Lamentations 4:2
    The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!
  67. Cross References
    Proverbs 6:15
    Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
  68. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:32
    Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.
  69. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:10
    And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
  70. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:29
    The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
    Jeremiah 44:18
    But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.
    2 Kings 23:12
    And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
    Zephaniah 1:5
    Those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom.
  71. Cross References
    2 Samuel 11:2
    It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
  72. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:19
    And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
    Acts 7:42
    But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
  73. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:18
    The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
    Jeremiah 44:18
    But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.
  74. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:12
    Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
  75. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:2 - 3
    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.
  76. Cross References
    Jeremiah 26:2
    Thus says the Lord : Stand in the court of the Lord 's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.
    2 Chronicles 20:5
    And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court.
  77. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:26
    Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
    2 Chronicles 30:8
    Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
  78. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:3
    For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.
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