Parallel Bible results for "Jeremiah 6:27-30"

Jeremiah 6:27-30

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27 I have made you a tester of metals, to examine my people to know and prove their ways.
27 “I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.
28 They are tin and iron; they are headstrong and rebellious. They live to slander. They act corruptly—every last one!
28 They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
29 The bellows roar; the lead is consumed. Yet the refining fails; the impurities remain.
29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.
30 They are called "rejected silver," for the LORD has rejected them.
30 They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
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