12 This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the Lord. I will make this city like Topheth.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
12 Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
12 And the whole city will become a Topheth.
12 Thus I will do to this place," says the Lord, "and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet.
12 This is what I will do to this place and its people, says the Lord . I will cause this city to become defiled like Topheth.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 19:12
Commentary on Jeremiah 19:10-15
(Read Jeremiah 19:10-15)
The potter's vessel, after it is hardened, can never be pieced again when it is broken. And as the bottle was broken, so shall Judah and Jerusalem be broken by the Chaldeans. No human hand can repair it; but if they return to the Lord he will heal. As they filled Tophet with the slain sacrificed to their idols, so will God fill the whole city with the slain that shall fall as sacrifices to his justice. Whatever men may think, God will appear as terrible against sin and sinners as the Scriptures state; nor shall the unbelief of men make his promise or his threatenings of no effect. The obstinacy of sinners in sinful ways, is their own fault; if they are deaf to the word of God, it is because they have stopped their ears. We have need to pray that God, by his grace, would deliver us from hardness of heart, and contempt of his word and commandments.