Jeremiah 19:10

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Then shalt thou break the bottle - a symbolical action, explained in .

In the sight of the men - the elders of the people and of the priests (; cf. the similar symbolical action of the stone bound to the Book of Prophecies and cast into the Euphrates, as a sign of Babylon's sinking to rise no more, ).