Jeremiah 6:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have set you as a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and test their way.

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  • Jer 1:18 : 18 For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
  • Jer 15:20 : 20 And I will make you to this people a fortified brass wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 3:8-9 : 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
  • Ezek 20:4 : 4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Make them know the abominations of their fathers:
  • Ezek 22:2 : 2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, you shall show her all her abominations.
  • Jer 9:7 : 7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and test 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%

    18For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

    19They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.

  • Jer 9:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Isa 51:16
    75%

    16And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, 'You are my people.'

  • Jer 15:20
    74%

    20And I will make you to this people a fortified brass wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.

  • Jer 6:26
    74%

    26O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Isa 48:10
    73%

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

  • Jer 6:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Ezek 33:7
    73%

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

  • Isa 21:6
    72%

    6For the Lord has said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.

  • Mic 2:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men averse from war.

    9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

  • Isa 60:15
    72%

    15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

  • Jer 11:18
    72%

    18And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    72%

    25Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now I have brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Isa 57:14
    72%

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

  • Isa 37:26
    72%

    26Have you 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 you should lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

  • Jer 10:17
    72%

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

  • Mic 6:3
    72%

    3O my people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.

  • Jer 15:14
    72%

    14And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land you do not know: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

  • Isa 1:25
    72%

    25And I will turn my hand upon you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your tin:

  • 2 Sam 22:44
    72%

    44You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the nations: a people whom I knew not shall serve me.

  • Jer 12:3
    72%

    3But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

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

  • Ezek 3:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

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

    9Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

  • Ezek 3:17
    71%

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

  • Nah 2:1
    71%

    1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • Jer 49:15
    71%

    15For behold, I will make you small among the nations, and despised among men.

  • Jer 16:19
    71%

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

  • Isa 47:6
    71%

    6I was angry with My people, I have defiled My inheritance and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; upon the elderly you have laid your yoke very heavily.

  • Jer 6:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

    22Thus says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.

  • Jer 6:8
    71%

    8Be instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

  • Isa 25:2
    71%

    2For You have made a city a heap, a fortified city a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be rebuilt.

  • Job 17:6
    71%

    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • Jer 4:17
    71%

    17As keepers of a field, they are against her all around; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.

  • Mic 6:16
    71%

    16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.

  • Ps 144:2
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    71%

    27But I know your dwelling place, your going out and your coming in, and your rage against me.

  • Ps 61:3
    71%

    3For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

  • Jer 17:19
    71%

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

  • Nah 3:6
    71%

    6And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a spectacle.

  • Jer 6:2
    70%

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

  • Isa 22:4
    70%

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

  • Nah 3:14
    70%

    14Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

  • Isa 25:4
    70%

    4For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is like a storm against the wall.

  • Jer 1:10
    70%

    10See, I have this day set you 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.