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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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up.
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 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 grievous revolters, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters. 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is melted by the fire; the refiner melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Reprobate silver they call them, because Jehovah has rejected them.
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Cross References
Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.
Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely My judgment is with Jehovah, and My work with My God.
Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore so says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for what else can I do for the daughter of My people?
Ezekiel 24:13
In your defilement is wickedness. Because I have purged you and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your defilement any more, until I have caused My fury to cease on you.
Hosea 11:7
And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt Him.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
Malachi 3:2-3
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.
1 Peter 1:7
so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,