I have appointed you to be an assayer among my people— a refiner— so you may know and assay their way of life.

“我使你在我民中为高台，为保障，使你知道试验他们的行动。

我使你作我百姓的测试者和考验者，使你知道并考验他们的行为。

我使你作我百姓的测试者和考验者，使你知道并考验他们的行为。

耶和华对我说：“我派你考验我的子民，就像冶炼金属一样，好察验他们的行为。

“我使你在我子民中作鉴辨和试验的（按照《马索拉文本》，“试验的”作“高台”;现参照《七十士译本》翻译），好让你查察、鉴别他们的行径。”

我使你在我民中為高臺，為保障，使你知道試驗他們的行動。

我使你作我百姓的測試者和考驗者，使你知道並考驗他們的行為。

我使你作我百姓的測試者和考驗者，使你知道並考驗他們的行為。

耶和華對我說：「我派你考驗我的子民，就像冶煉金屬一樣，好察驗他們的行為。

“我使你在我子民中作鑒辨和試驗的（按照《馬索拉文本》，“試驗的”作“高臺”;現參照《七十士譯本》翻譯），好讓你查察、鑒別他們的行徑。”

『我使你在我的人民中做試驗人的、做堡壘，使你曉得試驗他們所行的路。

主曰、我已立爾在我民中、為試者、為保障、使爾察知其途、

耶和華告先知曰、我使爾試民、同於煉金、置爾於戍樓、知民所行。

主諭先知曰、我使爾於我民中、如驗金者、如驗金者或作如戍樓如保障使爾考察而知其道途、

“ I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.

The Lord says to me,“ I have made you like one who tests metals. My people are the ore. I want you to watch them and test the way they live.

“ I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may know and test their ways.

“ Jeremiah, I have made you a tester of metals, that you may determine the quality of my people.

“ I have made you an assayer and an examiner among My people, So that you may know and put their way to the test.”

“ I have set you as an assayer and a fortress among My people, That you may know and test their way.

I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

I have appointed you to be an assayer among My people— a refiner— so you may know and assay their way of life.

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

The LORD said to me,“ I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.”

“ I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.

Today, I am the one who has made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land— against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the population.

Then I will make you a fortified wall of bronze to this people. They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save you and rescue you. This is the LORD’s declaration.

“ Will you pass judgment against them, will you pass judgment, son of man? Explain the detestable practices of their ancestors to them.

Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, though they are a rebellious house.”Next he said to me,“ Son of man, listen carefully to all my words that I speak to you and take them to heart.

“ As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.

Therefore, this is what the LORD of Armies says: I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of my dear people?