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32 Therefore look, days are about to come,” declares[a] Yahweh, “and it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, and they will bury in Topheth until there is no more place.[b] 33 And the dead bodies[c] of this people will be as food for the birds[d] of the heavens,[e] and for the animals[f] of the earth, without anyone to scare them[g] away. 34 And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a site of ruins.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:32 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 7:32 Literally “from there is no place”
  3. Jeremiah 7:33 Hebrew “body”
  4. Jeremiah 7:33 Hebrew “bird”
  5. Jeremiah 7:33 Or “sky”
  6. Jeremiah 7:33 Hebrew “animal”
  7. Jeremiah 7:33 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation