Jeremiah 19:1

Brenton's Septuagint

Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and thou shalt bring some of the elders of the people, and of the priests;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests

Hebrew Names Version
Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the Zakenim of the people, and of the Zakenim of the Kohanim;

King James Version
Thus saith the Lord , Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

English Standard Version
Thus says the Lord , "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,

New American Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

New Century Version
This is what the Lord said to me: "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter.

Amplified Bible
Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests

World English Bible
Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus sayth the Lord, Goe, and buy an earthen bottel of a potter, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the Priests,

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus says Yahweh, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "Go, buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Jeremiah, go to the pottery shop and buy a clay jar. Then take along some of the city officials and leading priests

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai then said, "Go; buy a clay jar from the potter; take some of the people's leaders and some of the leading cohanim;

Darby Translation
Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthen flagon, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to me, "Jeremiah, go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and some priests with you.

George Lamsa Translation
THUS said the LORD to me, Go and buy a potters earthen jug, and take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the elderly priests;

Good News Translation
The Lord told me to go and buy a clay jar. He also told me to take some of the elders of the people and some of the older priests,

Lexham English Bible
Thus said Yahweh, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people, and some of the leaders of the priests,

Literal Translation
So says Jehovah, Go and buy a potter's earthen jar, and gather from the elders of the people, and from the elders of the priests.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, thus saide the LORDE vnto Ieremy: Go thy waye, and bye the an erthen pytcher, and bringe forth the Senatours and chefe prestes

American Standard Version
Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus said the LORD: Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord, Goe and get a potters earthen bottell, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the Priestes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus sayde the Lorde: Go thy way and buye thee an earthen pitcher, and bryng foorth the senatours & chiefe priestes,

English Revised Version
Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord seith these thingis, Go thou, and take an erthene potel of a pottere, of the eldre men of the puple, and of the eldre men of preestis.

Update Bible Version
This is what Yahweh said, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

New English Translation
The Lord told Jeremiah, "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.

New King James Version
Thus says the LORD: "Go and get a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

New Living Translation
This is what the Lord said to me: "Go and buy a clay jar. Then ask some of the leaders of the people and of the priests to follow you.

New Life Bible
The Lord says, "Go and buy a pot-maker's clay jar, and take some of the leaders of the people and some of the older religious leaders.

New Revised Standard
Thus said the Lord : Go and buy a potter's earthenware jug. Take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potters earthen bottle, - and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests:

Revised Standard Version
Thus said the LORD, "Go, buy a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

Young's Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah, `Go, and thou hast got a potter's earthen vessel, and of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests,

THE MESSAGE
God said to me, "Go, buy a clay pot. Then get a few leaders from the people and a few of the leading priests and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, just outside the Potsherd Gate, and preach there what I tell you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and thou shalt bring some of the elders of the people, and of the priests; ² and thou shalt go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do thou read there all these words which I shall speak to thee: ³ and thou shalt say to them, ⁴ Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood, ⁵ and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design them in my heart: ⁶ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter. ⁷ And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth. ⁸ And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague. ⁹ And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbour in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.

Bible Verse Review
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Go: Jeremiah 19:10, Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 18:2-4, Jeremiah 32:14, Isaiah 30:14, *marg. Lamentations 4:2, 2 Corinthians 4:7

the ancients of the people: Jeremiah 26:17, Numbers 11:16, 1 Chronicles 24:4-6, Ezekiel 8:11, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 9:6, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 27:1, Matthew 27:41, Matthew 27:42, Acts 4:5, Acts 4:6

Reciprocal: Judges 7:19 - brake Isaiah 7:11 - a sign Isaiah 20:2 - Go Isaiah 30:29 - Ye shall Jeremiah 13:1 - Go Jeremiah 26:12 - The Lord Jeremiah 27:2 - put Jeremiah 43:9 - great Ezekiel 4:1 - take Ezekiel 12:3 - prepare Hosea 12:10 - used

Cross-References

Genesis 18:22
And the men having departed thence, came to Sodom; and Abraam was still standing before the Lord.

Genesis 19:1
And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom, and Lot having seen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshipped with his face to the ground, and said,

Genesis 19:5
And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to thee this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them.

Job 31:32
for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle,.... From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time with the Jews; and which is here further illustrated by this emblem: or, "go and get", or "buy, a bottle of the potter, an earthen one" k; so Kimchi; called in Hebrew "bakbuk", from the gurgling of the liquor poured into it, or out of it, or drank out of it, which makes a sound like this word l:

and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; the word "take" is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is by the Targum, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; for these words are not to be connected with the former, as in the Vulgate Latin version; as if the prophet was to get or buy the earthen bottle of the elders of the people, and of the priests; but those who were the greatest and principal men of the city, and of which the Jewish sanhedrim consisted, were to be taken by the prophet to be witnesses of what were said and done, to see the bottle broke, and hear what Jeremiah from the Lord had to say; who, from their years, it might be reasonably thought, would seriously attend to those things, and would report them to the people to great advantage; and the Lord, who sent the prophet to them, no doubt inclined their hearts to go along with him; who, otherwise, in all probability, would have refused; and perhaps would have charged him with impertinence and boldness, and would have rejected his motion with contempt, as foolish or mad.

k וקנית בקבק יוצר חרש "emas, [vel] emito oenophorum a figulo testaceum", Munster, Tigurine version. So Kimchi and Ben Melech. l Vid. Stockium, p. 150.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Get (i. e., purchase) a potter’s earthen bottle - The “bottle” was a flask with a long neck, and took its name from the noise made by liquids in running out.

The ancients - These “elders” were the regularly constituted representatives of the people (see Jeremiah 29:1; Numbers 11:16), and the organization lasted down to our Saviour’s time Matthew 26:47. Similarly the priests had also their representatives 2 Kings 19:2. Accompanied thus by the representatives of Church and State, the prophet was to carry the earthen bottle, the symbol of their mean origin and frail existence, outside the walls of Jerusalem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIX

By the significant type of breaking a potter's vessel, Jeremiah

is directed to predict the utter desolation of Judah and

Jerusalem, 1-15.

The prophets taught frequently by symbolic actions as well as

by words.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIX

Verse Jeremiah 19:1. Go and get a potter's earthen bottle — This discourse was also delivered some time in the reign of Jehoiakim. Under the type of breaking a potter's earthen bottle or jug, Jeremiah shows his enemies that the word of the Lord should stand, that Jerusalem should be taken and sacked, and they all carried into captivity.

Ancients of the priests — The chiefs of the twenty-four classes which David had established. See 1 Chronicles 24:4.