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。

“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、

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

“ 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.

猶大王公、祭司庶民攻爾、我必使爾屹立、若鞏固之城、鐵柱銅垣。

耶和華又曰、我使爾在民間、若金城之鞏固彼雖攻爾、必不能勝、蓋我左右爾、

人子、爾當責之、使知自昔以來、彼祖所作、我已痛疾。

我使爾容甚剛、顙甚堅、與彼無異、我使爾額堅剛、過於鐵石、彼悖逆之流、毋庸懼之、勿畏其威。又告我曰、人子、我所語爾之言、必耳聞心思、

人子、彼邑之民、惟嗜殺人、爾當責之、使知所作不端、為我所痛疾。

萬有之主耶和華又曰、我將何以處我民、必煆煉之而後可。