KJV King James Version
They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
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Jeremiah 6:28
They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
WEB World English Bible
They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
ASV American Standard Version
They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously—brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 6
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
26 O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
27 I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28 They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30 Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
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כֻּלָּם֙H3605 · kolallסָרֵ֣יH5493 · surto turn aside: removeסֽוֹרְרִ֔יםH5637 · sa.rarto rebelהֹלְכֵ֥יH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentרָכִ֖ילH7400 · ra.khilslanderנְחֹ֣שֶׁתH5178 · ne.cho.shetbronzeוּבַרְזֶ֑לH1270 · bar.zelironכֻּלָּ֥םH3605 · kolallמַשְׁחִיתִ֖יםH7843 · sha.chatto ruinהֵֽמָּה׃H1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)
Cross-references
Jeremiah 9:4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.Jeremiah 5:23But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.Ezekiel 22:18-22Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.Jeremiah 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.Psalm 50:20Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.Jeremiah 6:30Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.Revelation 19:2For true and righteous [are] his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.Jeremiah 20:10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.Revelation 11:18And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.Isaiah 1:4-5Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.Isaiah 31:6Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
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