1 Thus said Yahweh, "Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests; 2 and 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 will tell you. 3 Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, "Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind. 6 Therefore, behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’.

7 "‘"I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. 8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. 9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them."’

10 "Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you, 11 and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: "Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury. 12 This is what I will do to this place," says Yahweh, "and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth. 13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will 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."’"

14 Then Jeremiah came 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: 15 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘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.’"

1 耶和华这样说： "你去跟陶匠买一个瓦瓶， 要带着几位人民的长老和年长的祭司，

2 出到欣嫩子谷， 哈珥西（"哈珥西"意即"瓦片"）门的入口， 在那里你要宣告我将对你说的话。

3 你要说： ‘犹大列王和耶路撒冷的居民哪！ 你们要听耶和华的话。万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： 看哪！ 我必使灾祸临到这地方； 凡听见的， 都必耳鸣。

4 因为他们离弃了我， 把这地方玷污了， 在这地方向列神烧香。这些神是他们和他们的列祖， 以及犹大列王所不认识的； 他们又使这地方洒满无辜人的血。

5 他们筑了巴力的邱坛， 好用火焚烧自己的儿女， 作燔祭献给巴力。这不是我吩咐的， 我没有提说过， 也没有在我心里想过。

6 因此， 看哪！ 日子快到， 这地方必不再称为陀斐特或欣嫩子谷， 而要称为杀戮谷。’这是耶和华的宣告。

7 ‘我要在这地方使犹大和耶路撒冷的计谋失败， 也必使他们在仇敌面前倒毙于刀下， 死在寻索他们性命的人手中。我要把他们的尸体给空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽作食物。

8 我要使这城变为荒凉， 成为被人嗤笑的对象； 每一个经过这里的， 都必因这城所遭受的一切创伤而惊骇， 并且嗤笑她。

9 在他们被围困和受压迫之中， 就是在仇敌和寻索他们性命的人压迫他们的时候， 我必使他们吞吃自己的儿女的肉， 各人也彼此吃对方的肉。’

10 "然后你要在跟你同去的人眼前， 把那瓶子打碎，

11 并对他们说： ‘万军之耶和华这样说： 我必照样打碎这人民和这城， 好像人打碎陶匠的瓦器一样， 不能再修补。人必在陀斐特埋葬尸体， 甚至无处可埋葬。

12 我必照样对待这地方和这地方的居民， 使这城像陀斐特一样。’这是耶和华的宣告。

13 ‘耶路撒冷的房屋和犹大列王的宫殿， 都要像陀斐特一样成为不洁； 人曾在这一切房屋宫殿的屋顶上， 向天上的万象烧香， 向别神浇奠祭。’"

14 耶利米从陀斐特， 就是从耶和华差遣他去说预言的地方回来， 他站在耶和华殿的院中， 对众民说：

15 "万军之耶和华以色列的 神这样说： ‘看哪！ 我必使我宣告攻击这城的一切灾祸， 临到这城和她附近的一切城镇， 因为他们硬着颈项， 不听从我的话。’"