Other translations
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.
Darby Bible 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.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
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.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
God's Word
The bellows of the blast furnace blow fiercely to make the fire melt away the lead. It is useless to go on refining because the impurities can't be removed.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The bellows blow, 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.
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 American Standard Bible
The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.
New International Version
The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.
New Living Translation
The bellows fiercely fan the flames to burn out the corruption. But it does not purify them, for the wickedness remains.
Webster's Bible Translation
The bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
The 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.
EasyEnglish Bible
A very hot fire can remove the dirt from silver and make it pure. I punish my people to make them pure, but it is useless. There are too many wicked people, so I cannot make them pure.
Young‘s 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.
New Life Version
Air is blown hard on the fire to burn up the lead. It is of no use because the sinful ones are not taken away.
The Voice Bible
The refining fire has blazed fiercely, My prophet; the lead is burned away in the fire. But it’s no use. Though the refining fire burns hot, their wickedness cannot be removed.
Living Bible
The bellows blow fiercely; the refining fire grows hotter, but it can never cleanse them, for there is no pureness in them to bring out. Why continue the process longer? All is dross. No matter how hot the fire, they continue in their wicked ways.
New Catholic Bible
The bellows roar and the lead is consumed by the fire. In vain does the smelter do his work, for the wicked are not purged out.
Legacy Standard Bible
The bellows blow fiercely; The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the evil ones are not separated.
Jubilee Bible 2000
The bellows are burned; the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Christian Standard Bible
The bellows blow, blasting the lead with fire. The refining is completely in vain; the evil ones are not separated out.
Amplified Bible © 1954
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain do they continue refining, for the wicked [the dross] are not removed.
New Century Version
The fire is fanned to make it hotter, but the lead does not melt. The pure metal does not come out; the evil is not removed from my people.
The Message
God gave me this task: “I have made you the examiner of my people, to examine and weigh their lives. They’re a thickheaded, hard-nosed bunch, rotten to the core, the lot of them. Refining fires are cranked up to white heat, but the ore stays a lump, unchanged. It’s useless to keep trying any longer. Nothing can refine evil out of them. Men will give up and call them ‘slag,’ thrown on the slag heap by me, their God.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
The bellows blows hot to melt away the refining agent with fire. The refining agent is completely used up, but the evil is not removed.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
Good News Translation®
The furnace burns fiercely, but the waste metals do not melt and run off. It is useless to go on refining my people, because those who are evil are not taken away.
Wycliffe Bible
The bellow failed, lead is wasted in the fire, the weller welled in vain (the welder welded in vain); for the malices of them be not wasted.
Contemporary English Version
Silver can be purified in a fiery furnace, but my people are too wicked to be made pure, and so I have rejected them.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
Common English Bible © 2011
The bellows roar; the lead is consumed. Yet the refining fails; the impurities remain.
Amplified Bible © 2015
The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain they continue refining, But the wicked are not separated and removed.
English Standard Version Anglicised
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The bellows are scorched, the lead is consumed by the fire; In vain has the refiner refined, the wicked are not drawn off.
New American Standard Bible
The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.
The Expanded Bible
The ·fire is fanned to make it hotter [bellows blow], but the lead ·does not melt [is consumed by the fire]. ·The pure metal does not come out [L The refining is in vain]; the evil is not removed from my people.
Tree of Life Version
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining is completely in vain, for the wicked are not drawn off.
Revised Standard Version
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
New International Reader's Version
The fire is made very hot so the lead will burn away. But it is impossible to make these people pure. Those who are evil are not removed.
BRG Bible
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Complete Jewish Bible
The bellows blast away; and though the lead is consumed by the fire, in vain has the smelter refined, for the wicked have not been separated.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
The bellows blow, the oferet (lead) is consumed by the eish; the smelter’s refining is in vain; for the ra’im are not drawn off.
Names of God Bible
The bellows of the blast furnace blow fiercely to make the fire melt away the lead. It is useless to go on refining because the impurities can’t be removed.
Modern English Version
The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melts in vain, for the wicked are not plucked away.
Easy-to-Read Version
They are like a worker who tried to make silver pure. The bellows blew strongly, and the fire became hotter, but only lead came from the fire. The worker wasted his time trying to make that silver pure. In the same way the evil was not removed from my people.
International Children’s Bible
The fire is fanned to make it hotter. But the lead does not melt. The pure silver does not come out. And the evil is not removed from my people.
Lexham English Bible
The bellows are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. In vain he keeps on refining, but the wicked are not torn apart.
New International Version - UK
The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.