Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Jeremiah 6:28 in other translations
| BSB | All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt. |
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| WEB | They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly. |
| ASV | They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. |
| YLT | All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously--brass and iron, All of them are corrupters. |
| DARBY | They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters. |
| BBE | All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit. |
| Webster | They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. |
What does Jeremiah 6:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 6:18-30
God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they provoke God. The sins of God's professing people make them an easy prey to their enemies. They dare not show themselves. Saints may rejoice in hope of God's mercies, though they see them only in the promise: sinners must mourn…
Jeremiah 6:28 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 6:28
- Jeremiah 9:4
Take 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.
- Jeremiah 5:23
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- Jeremiah 18:18
Then 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.
- Ezekiel 22:18-22
Son 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. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. …
- Revelation 19:2
For 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.
- Jeremiah 20:10
For 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.
- Jeremiah 6:30
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
- Revelation 11:18
And 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.
- Isaiah 1:4-5
Ah 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. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Isaiah 31:6
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
- Psalms 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
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- Jeremiah 6:27
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
- Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
- Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah 6:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Todos ellos príncipes rebeldes, andan con engaño; son cobre y hierro: todos ellos son corruptores. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils sont tous des rebelles entre les rebelles; ils marchent dans la calomnie; ils sont de l’airain et du fer; ils sont tous des corrupteurs. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Allesamt sind sie die Widerspenstigsten der Widerspenstigen; sie gehen als Verleumder umher, sie sind Erz und Eisen sie handeln verderbt allesamt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Omnes isti principes declinantes, ambulantes fraudulenter, æs et ferrum: universi corrupti sunt. |