Jeremiah 6:27

“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.

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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

26Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

28They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 9:7Therefore the LORD of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

Ezekiel 3:8Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

Ezekiel 22:2“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

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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