7Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?


In Context

4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, said the LORD.

7 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.

9 Shall I not visit them for these things? said the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 9:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: "See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else'should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?