Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up.
New American Standard Bible
The lead is consumed by the fire;
In vain the refining goes on,
But the
King James Version
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Holman Bible
blasting the lead with fire.
The refining is completely in vain;
the evil ones are not separated out.
International Standard Version
The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out.
A Conservative Version
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire. In vain do they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
American Standard Version
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Amplified
The bellows blow fiercely,
The lead is consumed by the fire;
In vain they continue refining,
But the wicked are not separated and removed.
Bible in Basic English
The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
Darby Translation
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.
King James 2000
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the smelter refines in vain: for the wicked are not removed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] bellows are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. {In vain} {he keeps on refining}, but [the] wicked are not torn apart.
Modern King James verseion
The bellows are burned, the lead is melted by the fire; the refiner melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The bellows are burnt in the fire, the lead is consumed, the melter melteth in vain, for the evil is not taken away from them.
NET Bible
The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.
New Heart English Bible
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
The Emphasized Bible
Scorched are the bellows, By fire, is lead wont to be, consumed, - In vain, hath he gone on refining, For the wicked, have not been drawn out:
Webster
The bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
World English Bible
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Youngs Literal Translation
The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:29
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Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
28 They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them. 29 The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up. 30 They called to them, Rejected silver, because Jehovah rejected them.
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Cross References
Proverbs 17:3
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.
Isaiah 49:4
And I said, I labored in vain, for emptiness; and I finish my strength vainly; surely my judgment is with Jehovah and my work with my God.
Jeremiah 9:7
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
Ezekiel 24:13
In thy uncleanness is wickedness: because I cleansed thee and thou wert not cleansed, thou shalt no more be cleansed from thy uncleanness till my causing my wrath to rest upon thee.
Hosea 11:7
And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.
Zechariah 13:9
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
Malachi 3:2-3
And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller.
1 Peter 1:7
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 4:12
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: