Jeremiah 6:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A watch-tower I have given thee, Among My people a fortress, And thou knowest, and hast tried their way.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 1:18 : 18 And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land;
  • Jer 15:20 : 20 And I have made thee to this people For a wall -- brazen -- fenced, And they have fought against thee, And they do not prevail against thee, For with thee `am' I to save thee, And to deliver thee -- an affirmation of Jehovah,
  • Ezek 3:8-9 : 8 `Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead. 9 As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house `are' they.' 10 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, all My words, that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hear;
  • Ezek 20:4 : 4 Dost thou judge them? Dost thou judge, son of man? The abominations of their fathers cause them to know,
  • Ezek 22:2 : 2 `And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations,
  • Jer 9:7 : 7 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 1:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land;

    19and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee `am' I, -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- to deliver thee.

  • Jer 9:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6thy dwelling `is' in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

    7Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

  • Isa 51:16
    75%

    16And I put My words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of My hand have covered thee, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, `My people `art' thou.'

  • Jer 15:20
    74%

    20And I have made thee to this people For a wall -- brazen -- fenced, And they have fought against thee, And they do not prevail against thee, For with thee `am' I to save thee, And to deliver thee -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

  • Jer 6:26
    74%

    26O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.

  • Isa 48:10
    73%

    10Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.

  • Jer 6:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, `We do not attend.'

    18Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O company, That which `is' upon them.

  • Ezek 33:7
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    7And thou, son of man, A watchman I gave thee to the house of Israel, And thou hast heard from My mouth a word, And thou hast warned them from Me.

  • Isa 21:6
    72%

    6For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'

  • Mic 2:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8And yesterday My people for an enemy doth raise himself up, From the outer garment the honourable ornament ye strip off, From the confident passers by, Ye who are turning back from war.

    9The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.

  • Isa 60:15
    72%

    15Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy of generation and generation.

  • Jer 11:18
    72%

    18And, O Jehovah, cause me to know, and I know, Then Thou hast showed me their doings.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    72%

    25Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps `are' fenced cities,

  • Isa 57:14
    72%

    14And he hath said, `Raise up, raise up, prepare a way, Lift a stumbling-block out of the way of My people.'

  • Isa 37:26
    72%

    26Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,

  • Jer 10:17
    72%

    17Gather from the land thy merchandise, O dweller in the bulwark,

  • Mic 6:3
    72%

    3O My people, what have I done to thee? And what -- have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.

  • Jer 15:14
    72%

    14And I have caused thine enemies To pass over into the land -- Thou hast not known, For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, Against you it doth burn.

  • Isa 1:25
    72%

    25And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,

  • 2 Sam 22:44
    72%

    44And -- Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of my people, Thou placest me for a head of nations; A people I have not known do serve me.

  • Jer 12:3
    72%

    3And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter.

  • Ezek 5:14
    71%

    14And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that `are' round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

  • Ezek 3:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8`Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.

    9As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house `are' they.'

  • Ezek 3:17
    71%

    17that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.

  • Nah 2:1
    71%

    1Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

  • Jer 49:15
    71%

    15For, lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised among men.

  • Jer 16:19
    71%

    19O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

  • Isa 47:6
    71%

    6I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,

  • Jer 6:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I do give to this people stumbling blocks, And stumbled against them have fathers and sons together, The neighbour and his friend do perish.

    22Thus said Jehovah: Lo, a people hath come from a north country, And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.

  • Jer 6:8
    71%

    8Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

  • Isa 25:2
    71%

    2For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from `being' a city, To the age it is not built.

  • Job 17:6
    71%

    6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

  • Jer 4:17
    71%

    17As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

  • Mic 6:16
    71%

    16And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

  • Ps 144:2
    71%

    2My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my people under me!

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    71%

    27And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;

  • Ps 61:3
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    3For Thou hast been a refuge for me, A tower of strength because of the enemy.

  • Jer 17:19
    71%

    19Thus said Jehovah unto me: `Go, and thou hast stood in the gate of the sons of the people, by which kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all gates of Jerusalem,

  • Nah 3:6
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    6And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.

  • Jer 6:2
    70%

    2The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.

  • Isa 22:4
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    4Therefore I said, `Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

  • Nah 3:14
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    14Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.

  • Isa 25:4
    70%

    4For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible `is' as a storm -- a wall.

  • Jer 1:10
    70%

    10See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'