Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 6:27
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27 and following) I have appointed you as a strong tester among my people, and you will know and prove their ways. All these leaders are turning away (or disobedient), walking deceitfully (or perversely). Bronze and iron are all corrupted, the bellows in the fire have failed (which the Greeks more significantly…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
27I have caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me when I have tried their way.
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In context
25Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.
26O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.
— Jeremiah 6:27 —
28They are all disobedient, walking perversely: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupted.
29The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.