Nor walk by the way.
Because of the sword of the enemy,
Fear is on every side.
aDress in sackcloth
bAnd roll about in ashes!
cMake mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation;
For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.
That you may know and test their way.
They are cbronze and iron,
They are all corrupters;
The lead is consumed by the fire;
The smelter refines in vain,
For the wicked are not drawn off.
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Jeremiah 6:27
Render it:
I have set thee among My people as a prover of ore,
And thou shalt know and try their way.
They are all of them rebels of rebels (i. e., utter rebels):
Slander-walkers, were copper and iron,
Corrupters all of them.
The bellows glow: from their fire lead only!
In vain hath the smelter smelted,
And the wicked are not separated.
Refuse-silver have men called them:
For Yahweh hath refused them.
The intermixture throughout of moral words and metallurgical terms is remarkable.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 6:27:
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