The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.
Jeremiah 6:29 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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, but the LORD tests the hearts.
But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.
Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.
Therefore thus says the LORD of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Elyon, he certainly won't exalt them.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'*
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah--
Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Mikhah.