Jeremiah 19:12

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.

Jeremiah 19:12 in Other Translations

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 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.

12 And the whole city will become a Topheth.

12 I will do so to this place"-[this is] the declaration of the Lord-"and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.

Jeremiah 19:12 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 19:12

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the
inhabitants thereof
To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened: and [even],
or also, make this city as Tophet;
as full of slaughtered men and women as that had been of the blood of innocent children; and as filthy, abominable, and execrable a place as that; and to lose its name, as that is foretold it should, ( Jeremiah 19:6 ) ; and as Jerusalem did, after the desolation of it by Hadrian, as Jerom observes; for what was built upon the spot afterwards was by the emperor called Aelia, after his own name.

Jeremiah 19:12 In-Context

10 “Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching,

11 and say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

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.

13 The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”

14 Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the LORD’s temple and said to all the people,