Jeremiah 6:27
New American Standard Bible
27 “I have (A)made you an assayer and an examiner among My people,
So that you may know and put their way to the test.”
Jeremiah 6:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 I have made you a tester and a refiner[a] among my people
so that you may know and test their ways.
Footnotes
- 6.27 Or a fortress
Jeremiah 6:27
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
27 I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know and prove their way.
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Jeremiah 6:27-30
The Message
27-30 God gave me this task:
“I have made you the examiner of my people,
to examine and weigh their lives.
They’re a thickheaded, hard-nosed bunch,
rotten to the core, the lot of them.
Refining fires are cranked up to white heat,
but the ore stays a lump, unchanged.
It’s useless to keep trying any longer.
Nothing can refine evil out of them.
Men will give up and call them ‘slag,’
thrown on the slag heap by me, their God.”
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