KJV King James Version
Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
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Jeremiah 6:30
Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
WEB World English Bible
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
ASV American Standard Version
Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Silver rejected,’ they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 6
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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Hosea 9:17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.Psalm 119:119Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.Isaiah 1:22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:Isaiah 1:25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:Ezekiel 22:18-19Son 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.Proverbs 25:4Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.Lamentations 5:22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.Matthew 5:13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.Romans 11:1I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.
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