Jeremiah 6:27

I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.

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

In Context

26O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

28They are all grievous apostates, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 9:7Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

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

Ezekiel 22:2Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yea, you shall show her 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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