Jeremiah 6:27
Jeremiah 6:27-30 The Message (MSG)
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.”
Jeremiah 6:27 King James Version (KJV)
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
Jeremiah 6:27 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
“I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people, That you may know and assay their way.”
Jeremiah 6:27 New Century Version (NCV)
“Jeremiah, I have made you like a worker who tests metal, and my people are like the ore. You must observe their ways and test them.
Jeremiah 6:27 American Standard Version (ASV)
I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.
Jeremiah 6:27 New International Version (NIV)
“I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.
Jeremiah 6:27 New King James Version (NKJV)
“I have set you as an assayer and a fortress among My people, That you may know and test their way.
Jeremiah 6:27 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“I [the LORD] have set you as an assayer [O Jeremiah] and as a tester [of the ore] of My people, That you may know and analyze their acts.”