Jeremiah 19:10
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New International Version (©2011)
"Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"As these men watch you, Jeremiah, smash the jar you brought.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
"Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling with you,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Then you are to break the jug in front of the men who have come with you,

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD continued, "Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[The LORD says,] "Then smash the jar in front of the men who went with you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then shall you break the flask in the sight of the men that go with you,

American King James Version
Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,

American Standard Version
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that shall go with thee.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt break the flagon in the sight of the men that go with thee,

English Revised Version
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

World English Bible
Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

Young's Literal Translation
'And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with thee,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:10-15 The potter's vessel, after it is hardened, can never be pieced again when it is broken. And as the bottle was broken, so shall Judah and Jerusalem be broken by the Chaldeans. No human hand can repair it; but if they return to the Lord he will heal. As they filled Tophet with the slain sacrificed to their idols, so will God fill the whole city with the slain that shall fall as sacrifices to his justice. Whatever men may think, God will appear as terrible against sin and sinners as the Scriptures state; nor shall the unbelief of men make his promise or his threatenings of no effect. The obstinacy of sinners in sinful ways, is their own fault; if they are deaf to the word of God, it is because they have stopped their ears. We have need to pray that God, by his grace, would deliver us from hardness of heart, and contempt of his word and commandments.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then shall thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee. The earthen bottle he was bid to get of the potter, Jeremiah 19:1; this he is ordered to break in pieces before the eyes of the ancients of and of the priests that went with him out Jerusalem to Tophet, as an emblem of the easy, sure, and utter destruction of Jerusalem; for nothing is more easily broken than an earthen vessel; and so easily was Jerusalem destroyed by the Chaldean army; nor can an earthen pot resist any force that is used against it; nor could the inhabitants of Jerusalem withstand the force of Nebuchadnezzar's army; and an earthen vessel once broken cannot be put together again; a new one must be made; which was the case both of the city and temple; and which, upon the return from the captivity, were not repaired, but rebuilt.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. break … bottle—a symbolical action, explained in Jer 19:11.

the men—the elders of the people and of the priests (Jer 19:1; compare Jer 51:63, 64).

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The Broken Jar
…9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and narrow place, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. 10Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you, 11And shall say to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. …

Matthew 26:7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.
Isaiah 30:14 It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."
Jeremiah 19:1 This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests
Jeremiah 48:38 On all the roofs in Moab and in the public squares there is nothing but mourning, for I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.