Jeremiah 19:11

19:11 Tell them the Lord who rules over all says, 1  ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. 2  I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. 3  The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’ 4 

1 tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of armies.” For this title see the study note on 2:19. The translation attempts to avoid the confusion of embedding quotes within quotes by reducing this one to an indirect quote.

2 tn The adverb “Thus” or “Like this” normally points back to something previously mentioned. See, e.g., Exod 29:35; Num 11:15; 15:11; Deut 25:9.

3 tn Heb “Like this I will break this people and this city, just as one breaks the vessel of a potter which is not able to be repaired.”

4 sn See Jer 7:22-23 for parallels.