30 `Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
Dross! Thou hast caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Thy testimonies.
Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.
Take away dross from silver, And a vessel for the refiner goeth forth,
And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,
Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?
The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them `are' brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been, Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem,
`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down 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,