The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold;\par\tab But Jehovah trieth the hearts.
Jeremiah 6:29 - American Standard Version 2015 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The bellows roar; the lead is consumed. Yet the refining fails; the impurities remain. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed. |
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold;\par\tab But Jehovah trieth the hearts.
But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice {\i due} to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.\par
Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how {\i else} should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
She hath wearied {\i herself} with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust {\i goeth not forth} by fire.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to {\i him that is} on high, none at all will exalt {\i him}.\par
And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.\par
that the proof of your faith, {\i being} more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:
And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.