A crucible is for silver and a furnace is for gold, but Adonai tests the heart.
Jeremiah 6:29 - Tree of Life Version The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining is completely in vain, for the wicked are not drawn off. 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. |
A crucible is for silver and a furnace is for gold, but Adonai tests the heart.
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility. Yet surely the justice due to me is with Adonai, and my reward with my God.”
Therefore thus says Adonai: “If you return, I will restore you, you will stand before Me. If you extract the precious from the worthless, you will be as My mouth. Let them turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow, speaking deceit. With his mouth each says shalom to his neighbor, while inwardly setting a trap for him.
It has wearied toil, yet its thick rust will not come out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!
Because of your filthy obscenity, though I tried to purify you yet you were not made pure, you will never be cleansed from your filth until I have satisfied My fury on you.
So My people are bent on turning from Me. Although they are being called upwards, none will rise up.
This third I will bring through the fire. I will refine them as silver is refined, and will 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 answer, ‘Adonai is my God.’
These trials are so that the true metal of your faith (far more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire) may come to light in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Messiah Yeshua.
Loved ones, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal taking place among you to test you—as though something strange were happening to you.
So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made it into a graven image and a molten image; and they were kept in the house of Micah.