¹⁰ “Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling with you, ¹¹ and you are to proclaim to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.^(A)

The Finality of Babylon’s Fall

²¹ Then a mighty angel^(A) picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying: