Jeremiah 6:30
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New International Version (©2011)
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them."

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will label them 'Rejected Silver,' for I, the LORD, am discarding them."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Rejected silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They're called reject silver, because the LORD has rejected them.

NET Bible (©2006)
They are regarded as 'rejected silver' because the LORD rejects them."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[People] will call them useless silver because the LORD has rejected them."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Rejected silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

American King James Version
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

American Standard Version
Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Darby Bible Translation
Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.

English Revised Version
Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

World English Bible
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."

Young's Literal Translation
'Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they provoke God. The sins of God's professing people make them an easy prey to their enemies. They dare not show themselves. Saints may rejoice in hope of God's mercies, though they see them only in the promise: sinners must mourn for fear of God's judgments, though they see them only in the threatenings. They are the worst of revolters, and are all corrupters. Sinners soon become tempters. They are compared to ore supposed to have good metal in it, but which proves all dross. Nothing will prevail to part between them and their sins. Reprobate silver shall they be called, useless and worthless. When warnings, corrections, rebukes, and all means of grace, leave men unrenewed, they will be left, as rejected of God, to everlasting misery. Let us pray, then, that we may be refined by the Lord, as silver is refined.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 30. - Reprobate silver... rejected them; rather, refuse silver (as the margin)... refused them. The verbal root is the same.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Reprobate silver shall men call them,.... Or, "call ye them" (i), as the Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; by whom are meant the Jews, who thought themselves of some account, as silver; being the seed of Abraham, and having the law, the covenant and promises, and service of God; when those that tried them, as the prophets, found them to be nothing but dross; and therefore, if they must be called silver, they could call them no other than reprobate silver; or what is of no account and value; and which is confirmed by the following reason, which contains the judgment and conduct of him that cannot err:

for the Lord hath rejected them; from being his people; and therefore cast them out of their own land, and caused them to go into captivity.

(i) , "vocate eos": V. L. Pagninus.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

30. Reprobate—silver so full of alloy as to be utterly worthless (Isa 1:22). The Jews were fit only for rejection.

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An Invasion from the North
…28They are all grievous rebels, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. 29The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

Psalm 53:5 But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to dread. God scattered the bones of those who attacked you; you put them to shame, for God despised them.
Psalm 119:119 All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross; therefore I love your statutes.
Isaiah 1:22 Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.
Jeremiah 7:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Jeremiah 7:29 "'Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.
Jeremiah 14:19 Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
Hosea 9:17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.
Zechariah 11:8 In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them