Jeremiah 6:27

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 1:18 : 18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
  • Jer 15:20 : 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
  • Ezek 3:8-9 : 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
  • Ezek 20:4 : 4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
  • Ezek 22:2 : 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
  • Jer 9:7 : 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 1:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

    19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

  • Jer 9:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

    7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

  • Isa 51:16
    75%

    16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

  • Jer 15:20
    74%

    20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

  • Jer 6:26
    74%

    26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Isa 48:10
    73%

    10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

  • Jer 6:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

    18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

  • Ezek 33:7
    73%

    7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

  • Isa 21:6
    72%

    6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

  • Mic 2:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

    9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

  • Isa 60:15
    72%

    15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

  • Jer 11:18
    72%

    18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    72%

    25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Isa 57:14
    72%

    14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

  • Isa 37:26
    72%

    26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Jer 10:17
    72%

    17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • Mic 6:3
    72%

    3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

  • Jer 15:14
    72%

    14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

  • Isa 1:25
    72%

    25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

  • 2 Sam 22:44
    72%

    44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

  • Jer 12:3
    72%

    3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

    14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • Ezek 3:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

    9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

  • Ezek 3:17
    71%

    17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • Nah 2:1
    71%

    1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

  • Jer 49:15
    71%

    15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

  • Jer 16:19
    71%

    19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

  • Isa 47:6
    71%

    6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

  • Jer 6:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

    22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

  • Jer 6:8
    71%

    8 Be thou instructed, O usalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

  • Isa 25:2
    71%

    2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

  • Job 17:6
    71%

    6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • Jer 4:17
    71%

    17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

  • Mic 6:16
    71%

    16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

  • Ps 144:2
    71%

    2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    71%

    27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

  • Ps 61:3
    71%

    3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

  • Jer 17:19
    71%

    19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of usalem;

  • Nah 3:6
    71%

    6 And I will cast abomible filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

  • Jer 6:2
    70%

    2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

  • Isa 22:4
    70%

    4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

  • Nah 3:14
    70%

    14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

  • Isa 25:4
    70%

    4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

  • Jer 1:10
    70%

    10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.