Jeremiah 19:12
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New International Version (©2011)
This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This is what I will do to this place and its people, says the LORD. I will cause this city to become defiled like Topheth.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will do so to this place"--this is the declaration of the LORD--"and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.

International Standard Version (©2012)
This is what I'll do to this place and its residents," declares the LORD, "making this city like Topheth.

NET Bible (©2006)
I, the LORD, say: 'That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
That's what I will do to this place and to those who live in it, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Thus will I do unto this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city as Topheth:

American King James Version
Thus will I do to this place, said the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

American Standard Version
Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.

Darby Bible Translation
Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, and make this city as Topheth.

English Revised Version
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus will I do to this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city as Tophet:

World English Bible
Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

Young's Literal Translation
so I do to this place -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - As Tophet; i.e. an unclean spot, avoided by mankind.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof,.... To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened:

and even, or also,

make this city as Tophet; as full of slaughtered men and women as that had been of the blood of innocent children; and as filthy, abominable, and execrable a place as that; and to lose its name, as that is foretold it should, Jeremiah 19:6; and as Jerusalem did, after the desolation of it by Hadrian, as Jerom observes; for what was built upon the spot afterwards was by the emperor called Aelia, after his own name.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. make this city as Tophet—that is, as defiled with dead bodies as Tophet.

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The Broken Jar
…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. 12Thus will I do to this place, said the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: 13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods. …

Jeremiah 19:11 and say to them, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter's jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
Jeremiah 19:13 The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth--all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.'"