11And 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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Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-15)The message of wrath delivered in the Jer. 19:1-9 is here enforced, that it might gain credit, two ways:— I. By a visible sign. The prophet was to take along with him an earthen bottle (Jer. 19:1), and, when he had delivered his message, he was to break the bottle to pieces (Jer. 19:10), and the same that were auditors of the sermon must be spectators of the sign. He had compared this people, in t…
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