Jeremiah 19:10
Good News Translation
Then the LORD told me to break the jar in front of those who had gone with me

New Revised Standard Version
Then you shall break the jug in the sight of those who go with you,

Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah, as soon as you have said this, smash the jar while the people are watching.

New American Bible
And you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who went with you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that shall go with thee.

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And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that shall go with thee.

Jeremiah 48:12 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another.

Jeremiah 51:63,64 And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Euphrates: . . .

Context
The Broken Jar
9And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. 10And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that shall go with thee.11And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people, and this city, as the potter's vessel is broken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in Topheth, because there is no other place to bury in.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:7
There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on his head as he was at table.

Isaiah 30:14
And it shall be broken small, as the potter's vessel is broken all to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall not a sherd be found of the pieces thereof, wherein a little fire may be carried from the hearth, or a little water be drawn out of the pit.

Jeremiah 19:1
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:

Jeremiah 48:38
Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:63
And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Euphrates:

Jeremiah 19:9
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