Jeremiah 19:3-5

New American Standard Bible 1995

³ and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O ^(A)kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold I am about to bring a ^(B)calamity upon this place, at which the ^(C)ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle. ⁴ Because they have ^(D)forsaken Me and have ^(E)made this an alien place and have burned ^[a]sacrifices in it to ^(F)other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the ^(G)blood of the innocent ⁵ and have built the ^(H)high places of Baal to burn their ^(I)sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My ^[b]mind;