(A)and have built the high places of Baal (B)to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, (C)which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— therefore, (D)behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or (E)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. And in this place (F)I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, (G)and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. (H)I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

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