They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Parallel translations
- WEB They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
- BSB All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
- NKJV They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers. They are bronze and iron, They are all corrupters;
- NASB All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a slanderer; They are bronze and iron. They are, all of them, corrupt.
- NLT They are the worst kind of rebel, full of slander. They are as hard as bronze and iron, and they lead others into corruption.
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Quick answer
The test reveals the people to be stubborn rebels and slanderers, as hard and base as brass and iron. Their corruption is pervasive and unyielding.
Overview
Far from precious metal, the people prove to be common, hardened metal, an image of obstinate rebellion. Slander and corrupt dealing characterize them all. The verdict explains why ordinary correction has failed and judgment has become necessary.
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- Jer 9:4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
- Jer 5:23But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- Ezek 22:18–22Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
- Jer 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us devise 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Isa 1:4–5Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
- Jer 6:30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
- Rev 19:2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
- Ps 50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
- Isa 31:6Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
- Jer 20:10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Rev 11:18And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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