The valley warning

4Because they have forsaken me and made this place unrecognizable, and have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah had known, and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

5They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal—something I did not command or speak, nor did it arise in my heart.

6Therefore, look, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

7And I will frustrate the plan of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their corpses as food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.

8And I will make this city a horror and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss because of all its wounds.

9And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each will eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will afflict them.