Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I gave thee a watch-tower among my people, a fortification, and thou shalt know and try their way.
New American Standard Bible
That you may know and assay their way.”
King James Version
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
Holman Bible
a refiner
so you may know and assay their way of life.
International Standard Version
"I've made you an assayer of my people, as well as a fortress. You know how to test their way."
A Conservative Version
I have made thee a prover [and] a fortress among my people, that thou may know and try their way.
American Standard Version
I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.
Amplified
“I [the Lord] have set you as an assayer [O Jeremiah] and as a tester [of the ore] of My people,
That you may know and analyze their acts.”
Bible in Basic English
I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.
Darby Translation
I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.
King James 2000
I have set you for a tester and a fortress among my people, that you may know and test their way.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I have made you an assayer among my people, a fortification, so that you may know and put to the test their ways.
Modern King James verseion
I have set you up an assayer, an examiner among My people, that you may know and try their way.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Thee have I set for a prover of my hard people, to seek out and to try their ways.
NET Bible
The Lord said to me, "I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave."
New Heart English Bible
"I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way."
The Emphasized Bible
An assayer, have I set thee amongst my people, of gold-ore, - That thou mayest note and try their way:
Webster
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
World English Bible
"I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.
Youngs Literal Translation
A watch-tower I have given thee, Among My people a fortress, And thou knowest, and hast tried their way.
Themes
Fortresses » Illustrative of » Protection afforded to ministers
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
26 O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make to thee the mourning of an only begotten, a wailing of bitterness; for he laying waste shall suddenly come upon us. 27 I gave thee a watch-tower among my people, a fortification, and thou shalt know and try their way. 28 They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:18
Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.
Jeremiah 15:20
And I gave thee to this people for a wall of brass, fortified: and they shall war against thee, and they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 9:7
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
Ezekiel 3:8-10
Behold, I gave thy face strong over against their face, and thy forehead strong over against their forehead.
Ezekiel 20:4
Wilt thou judge them, wilt thou judge, son of man? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
Ezekiel 22:2
Thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the city of bloods, and make her to know all her abominations?