Jeremiah 6:27
Good News Translation
Jeremiah, test my people, as you would test metal, and find out what they are like.

New Revised Standard Version
I have made you a tester and a refiner among my people so that you may know and test their ways.

Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah, test my people as though they were metal.

New American Bible
A tester for my people I have appointed you, to search and test their way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.

Jeremiah 1:18 For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land.

Jeremiah 15:20 And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 3:8-10 Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads. . . .

Ezekiel 20:4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to them the abominations of their fathers.

Ezekiel 22:2 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood?

Context
An Invasion from the North
26Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us. 27I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.28All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:18
For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land.

Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?

Jeremiah 15:20
And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:26
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