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I’ll cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and daughters,[a] and people will eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress to which their enemies and those seeking their lives will subject them.”’”

10 “Then you are to break the jug in front of the men who have come with you, 11 and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: “In this same way I’ll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter’s vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They’ll bury corpses[b] in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:9 Lit. sons and the flesh of their daughters
  2. Jeremiah 19:11 The Heb. lacks corpses
  3. Jeremiah 19:11 The Heb. lacks anyone