Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
- BSB They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has 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 cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- Ps 119:119Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
- Isa 1:22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
- Isa 1:25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
- Matt 5:13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
- Prov 25:4Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
- Jer 7:29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Lam 5:22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
- Jer 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
- Rom 11:1I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Ezek 22:18–19Son 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.
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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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