Jeremiah 6:30

New Century Version

My people will be called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They are called rejected silver,for the Lord has rejected them.

Hebrew Names Version
Refuse silver shall men them, because the LORD has rejected them.

King James Version
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

English Standard Version
Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them."

New American Standard Bible
They call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.

Amplified Bible
They call them rejected silver [only dross, without value], Because the LORD has rejected them.

World English Bible
Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They shall call them reprobate siluer, because the Lord hath reiected them.

Legacy Standard Bible
They call them rejected silverBecause Yahweh has rejected them.

Berean Standard Bible
They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.

Contemporary English Version
but my people are too wicked to be made pure, and so I have rejected them.

Complete Jewish Bible
They are called ‘rejected silver,' because Adonai has rejected them."

Darby Translation
Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.

Easy-to-Read Version
My people will be called ‘Rejected Silver.' They will be given that name because the Lord did not accept them."

George Lamsa Translation
Rejected silver, they are called, because the LORD has rejected them.

Good News Translation
They will be called worthless dross, because I, the Lord , have rejected them."

Lexham English Bible
They are called rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them."

Literal Translation
Men will call them refuse silver, for Jehovah has rejected them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shal they be called naughty syluer, because the LORDE hath cast them out.

American Standard Version
Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.

Bible in Basic English
They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

King James Version (1611)
Reprobate siluer shall men call them, because the Lord hath reiected them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore do they call them naughtie siluer, because the Lorde hath cast them out.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Call ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

English Revised Version
Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Clepe ye hem repreuable siluer, for the Lord hath cast hem awei.

Update Bible Version
Men shall call them refuse silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

New English Translation
They are regarded as ‘rejected silver' because the Lord rejects them."

New King James Version
People will call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them."

New Living Translation
I will label them ‘Rejected Silver,' for I, the Lord , am discarding them."

New Life Bible
They are called waste silver, because the Lord has turned away from them.

New Revised Standard
They are called "rejected silver," for the Lord has rejected them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Rejected silver, are they called, For, Yahweh, hath rejected them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Revised Standard Version
Refuse silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them."

Young's Literal Translation
`Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ So listen, all you nations, and pay attention, you witnesses. Watch what I will do to the people of Judah. ¹⁹ Hear this, people of the earth: I am going to bring disaster to the people of Judah because of the evil they plan. They have not listened to my messages and have rejected my teachings. ²⁰ Why do you bring me offerings of incense from the land of Sheba? Why do you bring me sweet-smelling cane from a faraway land? Your burnt offerings will not be accepted; your sacrifices do not please me." ²¹ So this is what the Lord says: "I will put problems in front of Judah. Fathers and sons will stumble over them together. Neighbors and friends will die." ²² This is what the Lord says: "Look, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is coming from the far sides of the earth. ²³ The soldiers carry bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring ocean when they ride their horses. That army is coming lined up for battle, ready to attack you, Jerusalem." ²⁴ We have heard the news about that army and are helpless from fear. We are gripped by our pain, like a woman having a baby. ²⁵ Don't go out into the fields or walk down the roads, because the enemy has swords. There is terror on every side. ²⁶ My people, put on rough cloth and roll in the ashes to show how sad you are. Cry loudly for those who are dead, as if your only son were dead, because the destroyer will soon come against us. ²⁷ "Jeremiah, I have made you like a worker who tests metal, and my people are like the ore. You must observe their ways and test them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reprobate silver: or, Refuse silver, Psalms 119:119, Proverbs 25:4, Isaiah 1:22, Isaiah 1:25, Ezekiel 22:18, Ezekiel 22:19, Matthew 5:13

the Lord: Jeremiah 14:19, Lamentations 5:22, Hosea 9:17, Romans 11:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 16:1 - seeing 2 Kings 17:20 - rejected Psalms 53:5 - because Isaiah 5:4 - General Jeremiah 2:30 - In vain Jeremiah 6:28 - they are brass Jeremiah 7:28 - nor Jeremiah 7:29 - for Jeremiah 9:7 - I will Jeremiah 13:23 - Ethiopian Daniel 5:27 - Thou Amos 6:12 - horses Romans 1:28 - a reprobate mind 1 Corinthians 9:27 - a castaway 2 Corinthians 13:5 - reprobates Titus 1:16 - unto Hebrews 12:17 - he was Revelation 16:9 - blasphemed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Reprobate silver shall men call them,.... Or, "call ye them" i, as the Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; by whom are meant the Jews, who thought themselves of some account, as silver; being the seed of Abraham, and having the law, the covenant and promises, and service of God; when those that tried them, as the prophets, found them to be nothing but dross; and therefore, if they must be called silver, they could call them no other than reprobate silver; or what is of no account and value; and which is confirmed by the following reason, which contains the judgment and conduct of him that cannot err:

for the Lord hath rejected them; from being his people; and therefore cast them out of their own land, and caused them to go into captivity.

i קראו להם καλεσετε αυτους, "vocate eos": V. L. Pagninus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Reprobate - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross.

The Lord hath rejected them - This then is the end. The smelter is God’s prophet: the bellows the breath of inspiration: the flux his earnestness in preaching. But in vain does the fervour of prophecy essay to melt the hearts of the people. They are so utterly corrupt, that no particle even of pure metal can be found in them. All the refiner’s art is in vain. They have rejected all God’s gifts and motives for their repentance, and therefore Yahweh has rejected them as an alloy too utterly adulterate to repay the refiner’s toil.