Jeremiah Appointed as an Examiner

27 I have appointed you to be an assayer among my people—
a refiner[a]
so you may know and assay their way of life.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:27 Text emended; MT reads fortress

27 “I have made you a tester(A) of metals
    and my people the ore,
that you may observe
    and test their ways.

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Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.(A) I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, though they are a rebellious house.”

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But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.(A) I will make your forehead(B) like the hardest stone, harder than flint.(C) Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.(D)

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