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.”"
— Jeremiah 6:27, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
The people cry out,“We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!
Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.”
So I said,“Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with painful sobs as though you had lost your only child. For any moment now that destructive army will come against us.”
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 reported,“All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.
The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.
They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”