1Herren sagde derpå til mig: „Gå hen og køb en lerkrukke hos pottemageren. Tag så nogle af folkets politiske og religiøse ledere med dig2og gå ud i Hinnoms søns dal med krukken, tæt ved Potteskårsporten. Derude skal du overbringe dem følgende budskab:3Judas kongeslægt og Jerusalems indbyggere, hør Herrens ord! Herren, den Almægtige, Israels Gud, siger: Jeg sender en katastrofe over dette sted, som vil få det til at ringe for ørerne af enhver, der hører om det.4For Israel har svigtet mig og gjort denne dal til en skamplet ved at brænde røgelse for fremmede guder, som hverken de selv eller deres forfædre kendte til, og Judas konger har på dette sted ofret uskyldige børn.5De har bygget højaltre for Ba’al og brændt deres egne børn som ofre på disse altre, en afskyelig handling, som jeg aldrig ville drømme om at kræve af dem.6Der kommer en dag, siger Herren, hvor denne dal ikke længere skal hedde Tofet eller Hinnoms søns dal. I stedet skal den kaldes for ‚Massakrens dal’.7Jeg modarbejder Judas og Jerusalems krigsstrategi og tillader fjendens hære at overrumple jer og slå jer ihjel. Gribbe og vilde dyr vil æde jeres døde kroppe.8Jeg jævner Jerusalem med jorden, så enhver, der går forbi, vil gispe af rædsel over byens grufulde skæbne.9Jeg vil sørge for, at jeres fjender belejrer byen, indtil alle fødevarer er brugt op, og de belejrede begynder at spise deres egne børn og venner.10Jeremias, når du har givet dem budskabet, skal du knuse krukken for øjnene af de mænd, du har taget med.11Så skal du sige til dem: Hør, hvad Herren, den Almægtige, siger: Som den her lerkrukke blev knust, så den ikke kan laves igen, vil jeg knuse Judas og Jerusalems indbyggere. Og man vil kaste de døde ud her i Tofetdalen, fordi der ikke er plads nok i gravhulerne.12Det er, hvad jeg vil gøre med dette sted og dets indbyggere. Jerusalem vil blive vanhelliget som Tofet. Død og ødelæggelse vil ramme hvert eneste hus i Jerusalem, ja selv det kongelige palads. Det er straffen for, at I på tagterrasserne brændte røgelse for stjerneguderne og bragte drikofre til alle jeres afguder.”14Efter at Jeremias havde forkyndt sit budskab, forlod han Tofetdalen og gik hen i forgården til Herrens tempel, hvor han råbte til folket:15„Hør, hvad Herren, den Almægtige, Israels Gud, siger: Jeg vil snart lade katastrofen ramme Jerusalem og de omliggende byer, sådan som jeg har sagt, fordi I hårdnakket nægter at høre efter, hvad jeg siger.”
English Standard Version
The Broken Flask
1Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter’s earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,2and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.3You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.4Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,5and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—6therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.7And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.8And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.9And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’10“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,11and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.12Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’”14Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house and said to all the people:15“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”
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