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.


In Context

9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.'

10 "Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching,

11 and 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.

12 This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the Lord . I will make this city like Topheth.

13 The 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.' "

14 Jeremiah 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,

Jeremiah 19:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, and make this city as Topheth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do to this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city as Tophet:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12so I do to this place — an affirmation of Jehovah — and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:12Thus will I do to this place, said the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: