The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel; he punished them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had banished them from his presence.
Jeremiah 6:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Men will call them reprobate and rejected silver [only dross, without good metal], because the Lord has rejected them. American Standard Version (1901) Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them. Common English Bible They are called “rejected silver,” for the LORD has rejected them. Catholic Public Domain Version Call them: 'Rejected silver.' For the Lord has cast them aside." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them. |
The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel; he punished them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had banished them from his presence.
All the wicked of the earth I count as dross; therefore I love your decrees.
There they shall be in great terror, in terror such as has not been. For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.
Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;
I will turn my hand against you; I will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
Have you completely rejected Judah? Does your heart loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We look for peace but find no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.
When this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the Lord?” you shall say to them, “You are the burden. I will cast you off, says the Lord.”
Cut off your hair and throw it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation that provoked his wrath.
unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
Because they have not listened to him, my God will reject them; they shall become wanderers among the nations.
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.