19:1 Thus saith YHWH (יהוה),
Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the Kohanim;
19:2 And go forth unto the valley of Ben Hinnom, which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
19:3 And say, Hear ye DvarYHWH (יהוה), O melechim Yehudah, and inhabitants of YeruShalayim;
Thus saith YHWH (יהוה) Tzva'ot, Elohei Yisrael:
Hinnei, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
19:4 Because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the melechim Yehudah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
19:5 They have built also the shephi (high places) of ba'al, to burn their banim with fire [for] burnt offerings unto ba'al, which I commanded not, nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind:
19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith YHWH (יהוה), that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of Ben Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Yehudah and YeruShalayim in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their banim and the flesh of their banot, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
19:10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
19:11 And shalt say unto them,
Thus saith YHWH (יהוה) Tzva'ot:
Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.
19:12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith YHWH (יהוה), and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:
19:13 And the batim (houses) of YeruShalayim, and the batim (houses) of the melechim Yehudah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the batim (houses) upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
19:14 Then came YirmeYahu from Tophet, whither YHWH (יהוה) had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of YHWH (יהוה)'S house; and said to all the people,
19:15 Thus saith YHWH (יהוה) Tzva'ot, Elohei Yisrael:
Hinnei, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
התּפת Tofet etymology uncertain; the most probable is its connection with a root meaning “burning” - the “place of burning”;