They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
- KJV Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
- NKJV People will call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.”
- NASB They call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.
- NLT I will label them ‘Rejected Silver,’ for I, the Lord, am discarding them.”
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Quick answer
Because they cannot be purified, the people are called 'rejected silver,' for the LORD has rejected them. Persistent, unrepentant sin can bring God's solemn rejection.
Overview
The refining metaphor reaches its grim conclusion: worthless metal cast aside. God's rejection here is the judicial response to a nation that spurned every means of grace. Yet this rejection of Judah's generation stands against the backdrop of God's larger plan to preserve a faithful remnant and bring forth the Messiah.
Cross-references & the web
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- Hos 9:17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- Ps 119:119All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.
- Isa 1:22Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.
- Isa 1:25I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
- Matt 5:13You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
- Prov 25:4Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.
- Jer 7:29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
- Lam 5:22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
- Jer 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Rom 11:1I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Ezek 22:18–19“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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