⁵ They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children^(A) in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.^{(B) 6} So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth^(C) or the Valley of Ben Hinnom,^(D) but the Valley of Slaughter.^(E)

⁷ “‘In this place I will ruin^[a] the plans^(F) of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies,^(G) at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses^(H) as food^(I) to the birds and the wild animals.