11and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
12This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth — all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
14Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
— Jeremiah 19:11-14