Jeremiah 6:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.””
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BSBPD
“They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Jeremiah 6:30 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 17:20So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
- Psalms 119:119All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.
- Proverbs 25:4Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.
- Isaiah 1:22Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.
- Isaiah 1:25I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
- Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
- Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 23:33“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
- Lamentations 5:22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
- Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
- Hosea 9:17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- Matthew 5:13You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
- Romans 11:1I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
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