"Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee," — Jeremiah 19:10

Jeremiah 19:10 · KJV

“Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,”

— Jeremiah 19:10

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, 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.

Verse 11

And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; 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. {be made...: Heb. be healed}

Jeremiah 19 — Context

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.

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and {even} make this city as Tophet:

Cross References

Jeremiah 48:12

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

Jeremiah 51:63-64

And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, {that} thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and {take} of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;