Jeremiah 6:30
Good News Translation
They will be called worthless dross, because I, the LORD, have rejected them."

New Revised Standard Version
They are called “rejected silver,” for the LORD has rejected them.

New American Bible
“Silver rejected” they shall be called, for the LORD has rejected them.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Reprobate silver.

Psalm 119:119 I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

Proverbs 25:4 Take away the rust from silver, and there shall come forth a most pure vessel:

Isaiah 1:22,25 Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water. . . .

Ezekiel 22:18,19 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. . . .

Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:19 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

Lamentations 5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.

Hosea 9:17 My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Romans 11:1 I 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.

Context
An Invasion from the North
29The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed. 30Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.
Cross References
Psalm 53:5
They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.

Psalm 119:119
I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

Isaiah 1:22
Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.

Jeremiah 7:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,

Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

Hosea 9:17
My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Zechariah 11:8
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Jeremiah 6:29
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