Jeremiah 6:30
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
BSB
ASV
Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.
KJV
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
Reprobate - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross. The Lord hath rejected them - This then is the end. The smelter is God’s prophet: the bellows the breath of inspiration: the flux his earnestness in preaching. But in vain does the fervour of prophecy essay to melt the hearts of the people. They are so utterly corrupt, that no particle even of pure metal can be found in them. All the refiner’s art is in vain.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Isaiah 1:25I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
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And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in…
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.
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Hosea 9:17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen…
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
