Jeremiah 6:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ I have made you a tester and a refiner among my people so that you may know and test their ways.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ I [says the Lord] have set you [Jeremiah] as an assayer and a prover of ore among My people, that you may know and try their doings and be like a watchtower.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁷ I have made you a tester of metals, to examine my people to know and prove their ways.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ I have presented you as a strong tester among my people. And you will test and know their way.

Jeremiah 6:27 Cross References

Jeremiah 1:18

And I for my part have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

Jeremiah 15:20

And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:2

You, mortal, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to it all its abominable deeds.

Ezekiel 20:4

Will you judge them, mortal; will you judge them? Then let them know the abominations of their ancestors

Jeremiah 9:7

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