Jeremiah 6:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 1:18 : 18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
  • Jer 15:20 : 20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 3:8-9 : 8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows. 9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people. 10 Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.
  • Ezek 20:4 : 4 Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,
  • Ezek 22:2 : 2 And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.
  • Jer 9:7 : 7 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 1:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

    19 They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

  • Jer 9:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

    7 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.

  • Isa 51:16
    75%

    16 And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.

  • Jer 15:20
    74%

    20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

  • Jer 6:26
    74%

    26 O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

  • Isa 48:10
    73%

    10 See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.

  • Jer 6:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.

    18 So then, give ear, you nations, and ...

  • Ezek 33:7
    73%

    7 So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.

  • Isa 21:6
    72%

    6 For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:

  • Mic 2:8-9
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    72%

    8 As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.

    9 The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

  • Isa 60:15
    72%

    15 And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.

  • Jer 11:18
    72%

    18 And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    72%

    25 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

  • Isa 57:14
    72%

    14 And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

  • Isa 37:26
    72%

    26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

  • Jer 10:17
    72%

    17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

  • Mic 6:3
    72%

    3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

  • Jer 15:14
    72%

    14 They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.

  • Isa 1:25
    72%

    25 And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;

  • 2 Sam 22:44
    72%

    44 You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

  • Jer 12:3
    72%

    3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

    14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • Ezek 3:8-9
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    71%

    8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.

    9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.

  • Ezek 3:17
    71%

    17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.

  • Nah 2:1
    71%

    1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • Jer 49:15
    71%

    15 For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

  • Jer 16:19
    71%

    19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

  • Isa 47:6
    71%

    6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

  • Jer 6:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.

    22 The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.

  • Jer 6:8
    71%

    8 Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

  • Isa 25:2
    71%

    2 For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.

  • Job 17:6
    71%

    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • Jer 4:17
    71%

    17 Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

  • Mic 6:16
    71%

    16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

  • Ps 144:2
    71%

    2 He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    71%

    27 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Ps 61:3
    71%

    3 For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

  • Jer 17:19
    71%

    19 This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

  • Nah 3:6
    71%

    6 I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.

  • Jer 6:2
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    2 The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.

  • Isa 22:4
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    4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

  • Nah 3:14
    70%

    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Isa 25:4
    70%

    4 For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

  • Jer 1:10
    70%

    10 See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.