Jeremiah 6:29 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁹ “The bellows have burned, the lead has been consumed by fire. The refiner has refined in vain, for those who are evil have not been seperated.

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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.

Jeremiah 6:29 Cross References

Proverbs 17:3

A refining pot is for silver and a furnace for gold, But יהוה  tries the hearts.

Isaiah 49:4

And I said, ‘I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for emptiness, and in vain. But my right-ruling is with יהוה, and my work with my Elohim.’ ”

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore thus said יהוה, “If you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me you shall stand. And if you take out the precious from the worthless, you shall become as My mouth. Let them return to you, but do not return to them.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus said יהוה  of hosts, “See, I shall refine them, and shall try them, for what shall I do because of the daughter of My people?

Ezekiel 24:12

“She has wearied herself with sorrows, and her great rust has not gone from her. Into the fire with her rust!

Ezekiel 24:13

“In your filthiness is wickedness. Because I have cleansed you, but you are not clean. You shall not be cleansed of your filthiness any more, till I have caused My wrath to rest upon you.

Hosea 11:7

“My people are bent towards backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He lifts none of them up.

Zechariah 13:9

“And I shall bring the third into fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name, and I shall answer them. I shall say, ‘This is My people,’ while they say, ‘יהוה  is my Elohim.’ ”

1 Peter 1:7

in order that the proving of your belief – much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire – might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at the revelation of יהושע  Messiah,

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved ones, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that is coming upon you, to try you, as though some unusual matter has befallen you,

Judges 17:4

And he gave the silver back to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a moulded image. And they were in the house of Miḵ