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and say to them, 'This is what the LORD of armies says: "To the same extent I will ^(C1)break this people and this city, just as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will ^(C2)bury their dead in Topheth, ^(F1)because there is no other place for burial.

"This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.

"The ^(C1)houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be ^(C2)defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the ^(C3)houses on whose rooftops they burned ^(F1)sacrifices to ^(C4)all the heavenly ^(F2)lights and ^(C5)poured out drink offerings to other gods."'"