Jeremiah 19 – NIV & CCBT

New International Version

Jeremiah 19:1-15

1This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests 2and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, 3and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. 4For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. 5They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. 6So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

7“ ‘In this place I will ruin19:7 The Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10). the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals. 8I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. 9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

10“Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, 11and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. 12This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the Lord. I will make this city like Topheth. 13The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”

14Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the Lord’s temple and said to all the people, 15“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’ ”

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

耶利米書 19:1-15

瓦瓶的比喻

1耶和華對我說: 2「你去向陶匠買一個瓦瓶,帶著百姓和祭司中的一些首領到哈珥西19·2 哈珥西」意思是「碎陶片」。城門旁的欣嫩子谷,在那裡宣告我的話。 3你要說,『猶大王和耶路撒冷的居民啊,你們要聽耶和華的話!以色列的上帝——萬軍之耶和華說,看啊,我要在這裡降下災禍,聽見這消息的人都必耳鳴。 4因為他們背棄了我,玷污了這地方。他們向自己、自己的祖先及猶大君王都不認識的神明燒香,使這地方流滿了無辜人的血。 5他們為巴力建邱壇,燒死自己的兒子作燔祭獻給巴力。我從未吩咐他們這樣做,連提都沒提過,連想都沒想過。 6因此,看啊,時候將到,這地方不再叫陀斐特欣嫩子谷,要叫殺戮谷。這是耶和華說的。 7我要在這地方挫敗猶大人和耶路撒冷居民的計謀,使他們喪身在敵人刀下,死在仇敵手中,屍體成為飛鳥和野獸的食物。 8我必摧毀這城,使它令人驚懼、嗤笑,它的滿目瘡痍必令路人驚懼、嗤笑。 9我必使他們在敵人的圍困之下陷入絕境,吃兒女和親友的肉。』

10耶利米啊,你要在同去的人面前打碎瓦瓶, 11然後告訴他們萬軍之耶和華說,『我要把這百姓和這城打得粉碎,正如人打碎瓦瓶一樣,再也不能修復。人們要在陀斐特埋死人,直到無處可埋。 12我必這樣懲罰這城和其中的居民,使這城像陀斐特一樣。這是耶和華說的。 13耶路撒冷的房屋和猶大君王的宮殿將被玷污,像陀斐特一樣,因為他們在房頂向天上的萬象燒香,向別的神明奠酒。』」

14耶利米奉耶和華之命到陀斐特說預言回來後,站在耶和華殿的院子中對百姓說: 15以色列的上帝——萬軍之耶和華說,『看啊,我要把我說過的災禍降在這城及其周圍的村莊,因為他們頑固不化,不肯聽我的話。』」