Jeremiah 6:27
“I haue set thee for a towre, and a fortresse among my people: that thou mayest know and trie their way.”
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Jeremiah 6:27 Context
25Goe not forth into the field, nor walke by the way: for the sword of the enemie and feare is on euery side. 26¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallowe thy selfe in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an onely sonne, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come vpon vs. 27I haue set thee for a towre, and a fortresse among my people: that thou mayest know and trie their way. 28They are all grieuous reuolters, walking with slanders: they are brasse and yron, they are all corrupters. 29The bellowes are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire: the founder melteth in vaine: for the wicked are not plucked away.
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Other Translations for Jeremiah 6:27
I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
- King James Version
"I have made you an assayer {and} a tester among My people, That you may know and assay their way."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
I have made thee a trier `and' a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.
- American Standard Version (1901)
I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.
- Basic English Bible
I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.
- Darby Bible
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
- Webster's Bible
I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.
- World English Bible
A watch-tower I have given thee, Among My people a fortress, And thou knowest, and hast tried their way.
- Youngs Literal Bible
I have made thee a tower and a fortress among My people; that thou mayest know and try their way.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Jeremiah 6:27
6:27 I have set thee - Here God speaks by way of encouragement to the prophet, and tells him, he had made him a fortified tower, that he might be safe, notwithstanding all the attempts against him. And try - As refiners do metals; hereby be is encouraged to reprove them more freely, God will give him prudence to see what is amiss, and undauntedness to oppose it.