30 Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;
-- Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, -- and a time of healing, and behold terror!
Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: they are all copper, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
*Ye* are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men.
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Commentary on Jeremiah 6 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 6
In this chapter, as before, we have,
Jer 6:1-8
Here is
Jer 6:9-17
The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line.
Jer 6:18-30
Here,