Study Desk

therefore, behold, ^(C1)days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called ^(C2)Topheth or ^(C3)the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter.

"And I will ^(C1)frustrate the planning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and ^(C2)I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will make their ^(C3)carcasses food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.

"I will also turn this city into an object of ^(C1)horror and ^(F1)hissing; ^(C2)everyone who passes by it will be appalled and ^(F2)hiss because of all its ^(F3)disasters.

"And I will make them ^(C1)eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the siege and in the hardship with which their enemies and those who seek their life will torment them."'