Jeremiah 6:28
Good News Translation
They are all stubborn rebels, hard as bronze and iron. They are all corrupt, going around and spreading gossip.

New Revised Standard Version
They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly.

Contemporary English Version
And you'll find they are hard like bronze and iron. They are stubborn rebels, always spreading lies. *

New American Bible
Arch-rebels are they all, dealers in slander, bronze and iron, all of them, destroyers they are.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

all grievous.

Jeremiah 5:23 But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Isaiah 1:5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Isaiah 31:6 Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

walking.

Jeremiah 9:4 Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

Psalm 50:20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

they are brass.

Jeremiah 6:30 Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18-22 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. . . .

corrupters.

Isaiah 1:4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry: and thy wrath is come. And the time of the dead, that they should be judged and that thou shouldest render reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear thy name, little and great: and shouldest destroy them who have corrupted the earth.

Revelation 19:2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

Context
An Invasion from the North
27I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way. 28All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.29The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:23
But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Jeremiah 9:4
Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 24:13
Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.

Jeremiah 6:27
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