Jeremiæ 19

1 Hæc dicit Dominus: Vade, et accipe lagunculam figuli testeam a senioribus populi, et a senioribus sacerdotum:

Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and you shall bring [some] of the elders of the people, and of the priests;

2 Et egredere ad vallem filii Ennom, quæ est iuxta introitum portæ fictilis: et prædicabis ibi verba, quæ ego loquar ad te.

and you shall go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do you read there all these words which I shall speak to you:

3 Et dices: Audite verbum Domini reges Iuda, et habitatores Ierusalem: hæc dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Ecce ego inducam afflictionem super locum istum, ita ut omnis, qui audierit illam, tinniant aures eius:

and you shall say to them, Hear you the word of the Lord, you kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus says the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I [will] bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.

4 Eo quod dereliquerint me, et alienum fecerint locum istum: et libaverunt in eo diis alienis, quos nescierunt ipsi, et patres eorum, et reges Iuda: et repleverunt locum istum sanguine innocentum.

Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood,

5 Et ædificaverunt excelsa Baalim ad comburendos filios suos igni in holocaustum Baalim: quæ non præcepi, nec locutus sum, nec ascenderunt in cor meum.

and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design [them] in my heart:

6 Propterea ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus: et non vocabitur amplius locus iste, Topheth, et Vallis filii Ennom, sed Vallis occisionis.

Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter.

7 Et dissipabo consilium Iuda et Ierusalem in loco isto: et subvertam eos gladio in conspectu inimicorum suorum, et in manu quærentium animas eorum: et dabo cadavera eorum escam volatilibus cæli, et bestiis terræ.

And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.

8 Et ponam civitatem hanc in stuporem, et in sibilum: omnis, qui præterierit per eam, obstupescet, et sibilabit super universa plaga eius.

And I will bring this city to desolation and [make it] a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

9 Et cibabo eos carnibus filiorum suorum, et carnibus filiarum suarum: et unusquisque carnem amici sui comedet in obsidione, et in angustia, in qua concludent eos inimici eorum, et qui quærunt animas eorum.

And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.

10 Et conteres lagunculam in oculis virorum, qui ibunt tecum.

And you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with you,

11 Et dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Sic conteram populum istum et civitatem istam, sicut conteritur vas figuli, quod non potest ultra instaurari: et in Topheth sepelientur, eo quod non sit alius locus ad sepeliendum.

and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which can’t be mended again.

12 Sic faciam loco huic, ait Dominus, et habitatoribus eius: et ponam civitatem istam sicut Topheth.

Thus will I do, says the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.

13 Et erunt domus Ierusalem, et domus regum Iuda sicut locus Topheth, immundæ: omnes domus, in quarum domatibus sacrificaverunt omni militiæ cæli, et libaverunt libamina diis alienis.

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to strange gods.

14 Venit autem Ieremias de Topheth, quo miserat eum Dominus ad prophetandum, et stetit in atrio domus Domini, et dixit ad omnem populum:

And Jeremias came from [the place] of the Fall, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house: and said to all the people, Thus says the Lord;

15 Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum Deus Israel: Ecce ego inducam super civitatem hanc, et super omnes urbes eius universa mala, quæ locutus sum adversum eam: quoniam induraverunt cervicem suam ut non audirent sermones meos.

Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, [that they might not] listen to my commands.