Jeremiah 19:11 meaning and explanation

and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

Jeremiah 19:11, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah has just smashed a clay jar in the Valley of Ben-hinnom before the elders and priests, and now God gives the act its meaning. The Hebrew verb for shatter, shabar, describes breaking something beyond mending.

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