Jeremiah 6:27

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

In Context

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.

28All of these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 9:7Therefore 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?

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

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

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:19-30

Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 608.) 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. 21 Therefore thus saith the… Read the whole commentary →

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