Catholic Public Domain Version
"I have presented you as a strong tester among my people. And you will test and know their way. "
— Jeremiah 6:27, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.”
“I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way. ”
“"I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.”
“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.””
“I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.”
“I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.”
“I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.”
‘We have heard of their fame. Our hands have become weakened. Tribulation has overtaken us, like the pains of a woman giving birth.’
Do not choose to go out into the fields, and you should not walk along the roadway. For the sword and the terror of the enemy is on every side.
Wrap yourself in haircloth, O daughter of my people. And sprinkle yourself with ashes. Make a mourning for yourself, as for an only son, a bitter lamentation: ‘for the destroyer will overwhelm us suddenly.’
I have presented you as a strong tester among my people. And you will test and know their way.
All these leaders who are turning away and walking deceitfully, they are brass and iron; they have all been corrupted.
The bellows has failed; the lead has been consumed by fire; the molten metal was melted to no purpose. For their wickedness has not been consumed.
Call them: ‘Rejected silver.’ For the Lord has cast them aside.”