Jeremiah 6:29 - New Revised Standard Version

²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain do they continue refining, for the wicked [the dross] are not removed.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

Common English Bible

²⁹ The bellows roar; the lead is consumed. Yet the refining fails; the impurities remain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ The bellows has failed; the lead has been consumed by fire; the molten metal was melted to no purpose. For their wickedness has not been consumed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.

Jeremiah 6:29 Cross References

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord, and my reward with my God.”

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore thus says the Lord: If you turn back, I will take you back, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall serve as my mouth. It is they who will turn to you, not you who will turn to them.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: I will now refine and test them, for what else can I do with my sinful people?

Ezekiel 24:12

In vain I have wearied myself; its thick rust does not depart. To the fire with its rust!

Ezekiel 24:13

Yet, when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness, you did not become clean from your filth; you shall not again be cleansed until I have satisfied my fury upon you.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are my people”; and they will say, “The Lord is our God.”

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Judges 17:4

So when he returned the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah.