Jeremiah 6:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁹ The bellows blow, blasting the lead with fire. The refining is completely in vain; the evil ones are not separated out.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.

Jeremiah 6:29 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 17:3

A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold, and the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Isaiah 49:4

But I myself said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility; yet my vindication is with the  Lord, and my reward is with my God.

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: If you return, I will take you back; you will stand in my presence. And if you speak noble words, rather than worthless ones, you will be my spokesman. It is they who must return to you; you must not return to them.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of my dear   people?

Ezekiel 24:12

It has frustrated every effort; its thick corrosion will not come off. Into the fire with its corrosion!

Ezekiel 24:13

Because of the depravity of your uncleanness – since I tried to purify you, but you would not be purified from your uncleanness – you will not be pure again until I have satisfied my wrath on you.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning from me. Though they call to him on high, he will not exalt them at all.

Zechariah 13:9

I will put this third through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined and 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 say, “The Lord is our God.” ’

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proven character of your faith   #– #more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire   #– #may result  in praise, glory, and honour  at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:12

Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you, as if something unusual were happening to you.

Judges 17:4

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took 2.5 kilograms of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image and a silver idol, and it was in Micah’s house.