27"I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.


In Context

24 We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

25 Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.

26 O my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

27 "I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.

28 They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.

29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

Jeremiah 6:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:27I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:27I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:27I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know and prove their way.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:27I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:27I have made thee a tower and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:27I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:27|I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:27A watch-tower I have given thee, Among My people a fortress, And thou knowest, and hast tried their way.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:27I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.