Jeremiah 19:11 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 19:11

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.

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ASV

and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah 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 in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Origen of Alexandria

FRAGMENTS ON JEREMIAH 31 (253)

The apostle also knows vessels of wrath "made for destruction so that he might make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy." God has divided all people into these two vessels, those of wrath, those of mercy, those like Pharaoh and the Egyptians, those like Paul and those who have believed. But what is the treasury of the Lord in which are the vessels of wrath? Perhaps it is the church, in which such often go unnoticed.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 10, 11.) And you shall break the jar in the eyes of the men who go or come with you. And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: So shall I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot be restored any longer. Clearly it is spoken not of the Babylonian, but of the Roman captivity. For after the Babylonians, the city was rebuilt, the people brought back to Judah, and the former abundance restored.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They depended much upon the firmness of their constitution, and the fixedness of their courage, which they thought hardened them like a vessel of brass; but the prophet shows that all that did but harden them like a vessel of earth, which, though hard, is brittle and sooner broken than that which is not so hard.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Made whole again - literally, “healed.” In this lies the distinction between this symbol and that of Jer 18:4. The plastic clay can be shaped and re-shaped until the potter forms with it the vessel he had predetermined: the broken bottle is of no further use, but its fragments are cast away forever upon the heaps of rubbish deposited in Tophet.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאָמַרְתָּ֨	ve.'a.mar.Ta	and you will say	H559 →
אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם	'a.lei.Hem	to them	H413 →
כֹּה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר׀	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֗וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
כָּ֣כָה	Ka.khah	thus	H3602 →
אֶשְׁבֹּ֞ר	'esh.Bor	I will break	H7665 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָעָ֤ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
הַזֶּה֙	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הָעִ֣יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
הַזֹּ֔את	ha.Zot	<the> this	H2063 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
יִשְׁבֹּר֙	yish.Bor	someone breaks	H7665 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כְּלִ֣י	ke.Li	[the] vessel of	H3627 →
הַיּוֹצֵ֔ר	hai.yo.Tzer	the potter	H3335 →
אֲשֶׁ֛ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יוּכַ֥ל	yu.Khal	it will be able	H3201 →
לְהֵרָפֵ֖ה	le.he.ra.Peh	to be repaired	H7495 →
ע֑וֹד	od	again	H5750 →
וּבְתֹ֣פֶת	u.ve.To.fet	and in Topheth	H8612 →
יִקְבְּר֔וּ	yik.be.Ru	people will bury	H6912 →
מֵאֵ֥ין	me.'Ein	from not	H369 →
מָק֖וֹם	ma.Kom	room	H4725 →
לִקְבּֽוֹר׃	lik.Bor	to bury	H6912 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 2:9
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
leads to
- Revelation 12:5
  And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 2:26–27
  And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
- Psalms 89:23
  I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
Through
Lamentations 4:2
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
leads to
- Isaiah 30:14
  It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Through
Revelation 2:27
He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—just as I have received authority from My Father.
leads to
- Revelation 19:15
  And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 2:8–9
  Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Through
Isaiah 30:14
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a…
leads to
- Psalms 2:9
  You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 19:10–11
  Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

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