1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jeremiah 19:1 | Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests: | Priests. They were to furnish the vessel, and accompany the prophets, ver. 10. Septuagint, "and thou shalt take some of," etc. (Haydock) --- Words and actions together instruct most powerfully. (St. Jerome) (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 19:2 | And go forth into the valley of the son of Ennom, which is by the entry of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt proclaim the words that I shall tell thee. | Gate, which must have been to the south-east of Jerusalem, leading to the valley. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Charseith gate." (Haydock) --- Here the common people were buried, after the reign of Josias, who contaminated the place where the idol Moloc had been adored. |
| Jeremiah 19:3 | And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that whosoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle: | Tingle, as if he had heard a sudden noise or clap of thunder. (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 19:4 | Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place: and have sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their fathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents. | Profaned. Literally, "rendered strange." (Haydock) --- I have no farther regard for it. --- Innocents: their own children, ver. 5., and Jeremias 7:31. |
| Jeremiah 19:5 | And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command, nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind. | Mind. Perhaps the people stupidly thought thus to honour him; but God pointedly condemns such sacrifices. |
| Jeremiah 19:6 | Therefore, behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom, but the valley of slaughter. | Valley. Septuagint, "burial-place of slaughter," ver. 2. Here the Chaldeans slew many. |
| Jeremiah 19:7 | And I will defeat the counsel of Juda, and of Jerusalem, in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth. | |
| Jeremiah 19:8 | *And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all the plagues thereof. Jeremias 18:16.; Jeremias 49:13.; Jeremias 50:13. | |
| Jeremiah 19:9 | And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. | Sons, to punish them for their cruel sacrifices. (St. Jerome) --- This was verified under Sedecias, Lamentations 2:10., and 4:10., and Ezechiel 5:10. |
| Jeremiah 19:10 | And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that shall go with thee. | |
| Jeremiah 19:11 | And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people, and this city, as the potter's vessel is broken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in Topheth, because there is no other place to bury in. | Again. The captives indeed returned, so that this must not be urged too much. (Calmet) --- Yet the Romans strictly fulfilled this prophecy, (St. Jerome; Sanctius) and the city was built in another place, and styled Aelia. (Haydock) --- God can perform what is impossible to man, Jeremias 18:3., and Matthew xix. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 19:12 | Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth. | |
| Jeremiah 19:13 | And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda, shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses, upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods. | Topheth. This sentence was not in St. Jerome's Hebrew copy, but in the Septuagint (Calmet) with some variations: (Haydock) "All the houses of the kings of Juda, like the place of Topheth," is added by the Septuagint. (St. Jerome) --- In Grabe they agree with the present Hebrew and Chaldean only rendering, "shall be as a place in ruin, for the defilements in all," etc. (Haydock) --- Of heaven: the moon, etc., 4 Kings 23:12. Josias could not entirely root out this impiety, Jeremias 32:29. His wicked son Joachaz or Sellum, was probably now on the throne, when the prophet went to the potter, etc., Jeremias 18 -- Jeremias 21. |
| Jeremiah 19:14 | Then Jeremias came from Topheth, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the house of the Lord, and said to all people: | People. Many still resorted to the temple. (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 19:15 | Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring in upon this city, and upon all the cities thereof, all the evils that I have spoken against it: because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. |