Jeremiah 19:1

Good News Translation

The Lord told me to go and buy a clay jar. He also told me to take some of the elders of the people and some of the older priests,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests

Hebrew Names Version
Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the Zakenim of the people, and of the Zakenim of the Kohanim;

King James Version
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;

English Standard Version
Thus says the Lord , "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,

New American Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

New Century Version
This is what the Lord said to me: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter.

Amplified Bible
Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests

World English Bible
Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus sayth the Lord, Goe, and buy an earthen bottel of a potter, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the Priests,

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus says Yahweh, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "Go, buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Jeremiah, go to the pottery shop and buy a clay jar. Then take along some of the city officials and leading priests

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai then said, "Go; buy a clay jar from the potter; take some of the people's leaders and some of the leading cohanim;

Darby Translation
Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthen flagon, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to me, "Jeremiah, go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and some priests with you.

George Lamsa Translation
THUS said the LORD to me, Go and buy a potters earthen jug, and take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the elderly priests;

Lexham English Bible
Thus said Yahweh, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people, and some of the leaders of the priests,

Literal Translation
So says Jehovah, Go and buy a potter's earthen jar, and gather from the elders of the people, and from the elders of the priests.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, thus saide the LORDE vnto Ieremy: Go thy waye, and bye the an erthen pytcher, and bringe forth the Senatours and chefe prestes

American Standard Version
Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus said the LORD: Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord, Goe and get a potters earthen bottell, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the Priestes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus sayde the Lorde: Go thy way and buye thee an earthen pitcher, and bryng foorth the senatours & chiefe priestes,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and thou shalt bring some of the elders of the people, and of the priests;

English Revised Version
Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord seith these thingis, Go thou, and take an erthene potel of a pottere, of the eldre men of the puple, and of the eldre men of preestis.

Update Bible Version
This is what Yahweh said, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

New English Translation
The Lord told Jeremiah, "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.

New King James Version
Thus says the LORD: "Go and get a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

New Living Translation
This is what the Lord said to me: "Go and buy a clay jar. Then ask some of the leaders of the people and of the priests to follow you.

New Life Bible
The Lord says, "Go and buy a pot-maker's clay jar, and take some of the leaders of the people and some of the older religious leaders.

New Revised Standard
Thus said the Lord : Go and buy a potter's earthenware jug. Take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potters earthen bottle, - and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests:

Revised Standard Version
Thus said the LORD, "Go, buy a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

Young's Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah, `Go, and thou hast got a potter's earthen vessel, and of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests,

THE MESSAGE
God said to me, "Go, buy a clay pot. Then get a few leaders from the people and a few of the leading priests and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, just outside the Potsherd Gate, and preach there what I tell you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord told me to go and buy a clay jar. He also told me to take some of the elders of the people and some of the older priests, ² and to go through Potsherd Gate out to Hinnom Valley. There I was to proclaim the message that he would give me. ³ The Lord told me to say, "Kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem, listen to what I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will be stunned. ⁴ I am going to do this because the people have abandoned me and defiled this place by offering sacrifices here to other gods—gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known anything about. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people, ⁵ and they have built altars for Baal in order to burn their children in the fire as sacrifices. I never commanded them to do this; it never even entered my mind. ⁶ So then, the time will come when this place will no longer be called Topheth or Hinnom Valley. Instead, it will be known as Slaughter Valley. ⁷ In this place I will frustrate all the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will let their enemies triumph over them and kill them in battle. I will give their corpses to the birds and the wild animals as food. ⁸ I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. ⁹ The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children."

Bible Verse Review
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Go: Jeremiah 19:10, Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 18:2-4, Jeremiah 32:14, Isaiah 30:14, *marg. Lamentations 4:2, 2 Corinthians 4:7

the ancients of the people: Jeremiah 26:17, Numbers 11:16, 1 Chronicles 24:4-6, Ezekiel 8:11, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 9:6, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 27:1, Matthew 27:41, Matthew 27:42, Acts 4:5, Acts 4:6

Reciprocal: Judges 7:19 - brake Isaiah 7:11 - a sign Isaiah 20:2 - Go Isaiah 30:29 - Ye shall Jeremiah 13:1 - Go Jeremiah 26:12 - The Lord Jeremiah 27:2 - put Jeremiah 43:9 - great Ezekiel 4:1 - take Ezekiel 12:3 - prepare Hosea 12:10 - used

Cross-References

Genesis 18:22
Then the two men left and went on toward Sodom, but the Lord remained with Abraham.

Genesis 19:1
When the two angels came to Sodom that evening, Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before them

Genesis 19:5
They called out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us!" The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with them.

Job 31:32
I invited travelers into my home and never let them sleep in the streets.

Hebrews 13:2
Remember to welcome strangers in your homes. There were some who did that and welcomed angels without knowing it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle,.... From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time with the Jews; and which is here further illustrated by this emblem: or, "go and get", or "buy, a bottle of the potter, an earthen one" k; so Kimchi; called in Hebrew "bakbuk", from the gurgling of the liquor poured into it, or out of it, or drank out of it, which makes a sound like this word l:

and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; the word "take" is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is by the Targum, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; for these words are not to be connected with the former, as in the Vulgate Latin version; as if the prophet was to get or buy the earthen bottle of the elders of the people, and of the priests; but those who were the greatest and principal men of the city, and of which the Jewish sanhedrim consisted, were to be taken by the prophet to be witnesses of what were said and done, to see the bottle broke, and hear what Jeremiah from the Lord had to say; who, from their years, it might be reasonably thought, would seriously attend to those things, and would report them to the people to great advantage; and the Lord, who sent the prophet to them, no doubt inclined their hearts to go along with him; who, otherwise, in all probability, would have refused; and perhaps would have charged him with impertinence and boldness, and would have rejected his motion with contempt, as foolish or mad.

k וקנית בקבק יוצר חרש "emas, [vel] emito oenophorum a figulo testaceum", Munster, Tigurine version. So Kimchi and Ben Melech. l Vid. Stockium, p. 150.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Get (i. e., purchase) a potter’s earthen bottle - The “bottle” was a flask with a long neck, and took its name from the noise made by liquids in running out.

The ancients - These “elders” were the regularly constituted representatives of the people (see Jeremiah 29:1; Numbers 11:16), and the organization lasted down to our Saviour’s time Matthew 26:47. Similarly the priests had also their representatives 2 Kings 19:2. Accompanied thus by the representatives of Church and State, the prophet was to carry the earthen bottle, the symbol of their mean origin and frail existence, outside the walls of Jerusalem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIX

By the significant type of breaking a potter's vessel, Jeremiah

is directed to predict the utter desolation of Judah and

Jerusalem, 1-15.

The prophets taught frequently by symbolic actions as well as

by words.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIX

Verse Jeremiah 19:1. Go and get a potter's earthen bottle — This discourse was also delivered some time in the reign of Jehoiakim. Under the type of breaking a potter's earthen bottle or jug, Jeremiah shows his enemies that the word of the Lord should stand, that Jerusalem should be taken and sacked, and they all carried into captivity.

Ancients of the priests — The chiefs of the twenty-four classes which David had established. See 1 Chronicles 24:4.