³ and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings^(A) 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^(B) on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.^{(C) 4} For they have forsaken^(D) me and made this a place of foreign gods^(E); they have burned incense^(F) 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.^{(G) 5} They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children^(H) in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.^{(I) 6} So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth^(J) or the Valley of Ben Hinnom,^(K) but the Valley of Slaughter.^(L)

¹⁴ Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court^(A) 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^(B) I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked^(C) and would not listen^(D) to my words.’”