¹⁰ Then you shall break the jug in the sight of those who go with you

⁶³ When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,^{(A) 64} and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ”^[a]

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.^(B)

The Broken Earthenware Jug

19 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,

¹² Therefore, the time is surely coming, says the Lord, when I shall send to him decanters to decant him and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces.