⁹ 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]