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Jeremiah 6:30

New American Bible - revised edition

“Silver rejected” they shall be called, for the Lord has rejected them.

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So the Lord rejected the entire people of Israel: he afflicted them and delivered them over to plunderers, finally casting them from his presence.

Like dross you regard all the wicked on earth; therefore I love your testimonies.

Do they not know better, those who do evil, who feed upon my people as they feed upon bread? Have they not called upon God?

Remove the dross from silver, and it comes forth perfectly purified;

Your silver is turned to dross, your wine is mixed with water.

I will turn my hand against you, and refine your dross in the furnace, removing all your alloy.

Have you really cast Judah off? Is Zion loathsome to you? Why have you struck us a blow that cannot be healed? We wait for peace, to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

And when this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the Lord?” you shall answer, “You are the burden, and I cast you off”—oracle of the Lord.

The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

Cut off your hair and throw it away! on the heights raise a lament; The Lord has indeed rejected and cast off the generation that draws down his wrath.

For now you have indeed rejected us and utterly turned your wrath against us.

My God will disown them because they have not listened to him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.




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