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Jeremiah 6:30

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

My people will be called ‘Rejected Silver.’ They will be given that name because the Lord did not accept them.”

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Those people will not listen to my God, so he will refuse to listen to them. And they will wander among the nations without a home.

Once you were like pure silver, but now you are like the impurities that people throw away when the silver is purified. You are like good wine that has been weakened with water.

You throw away the wicked of this world like trash. So I love your rules.

People use lye to clean silver. In the same way, I will clean away all your wrongs. I will remove all the impurities from you.

So I ask, “Did God force his people to leave him?” Of course not. I myself am an Israelite. I am from the family of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its taste, it cannot be made salty again. Salt is useless if it loses its salty taste. It will be thrown out where people will just walk on it.

You were very angry with us. Have you completely rejected us?

Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you hate Zion? You hurt us so badly that we cannot be made well again. Why did you do that? We were hoping for peace, but nothing good has come. We were hoping for a time of healing, but only terror came.

“Jeremiah, cut off your hair and throw it away. Go up to the bare hilltop and cry, because the Lord has rejected this generation of people. He has turned his back on these people. And in anger he will punish them.

Remove the worthless things from silver to make it pure, and a worker can make something beautiful.

They will be filled with fear— a fear like they have never felt before! People of Israel, you will defeat those who attacked you, because God has rejected them. And he will scatter their bones.

This is the Lord’s message to Jeremiah:

I fired the three shepherds all in one month. I got angry at the sheep, and they began to hate me.

The Lord rejected all the Israelites. He brought them many troubles. He let people destroy them. Finally, he threw them away and removed them from his sight.

“The people of Judah, or a prophet, or a priest may ask you, ‘Jeremiah, what is the announcement of the Lord?’ You will answer them and say, ‘You are a heavy load, and I will throw down this heavy load.’ This message is from the Lord.




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