Jeremiah 6:28

28 They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.

Jeremiah 6:28 in Other Translations

28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

28 They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

28 They are the worst kind of rebel, full of slander. They are as hard as bronze and iron, and they lead others into corruption.

28 They're a thickheaded, hard-nosed bunch, rotten to the core, the lot of them.

28 All are stubborn rebels spreading slander. [They are] bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

Jeremiah 6:28 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all grievous revolters
From the right way of God and his worship: or, they are all revolters of revolters
^F5; of all, the greatest revolters, the greatest sinners and transgressors, the most stubborn and disobedient; or sons of revolters; fathers and children are alike. The Targum, is,

``all their princes rebel;''

and so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions: "walking with slanders": of one another; or with deceit, as the Targum; in a hypocritical and fraudulent manner; playing the hypocrite with God, or tricking and deceiving their neighbours. They are "brass and iron"; as vile and mean as those metals, and not as gold and silver; or as hard and inflexible as they are; or they deal as insincerely

``as he that mixes brass with iron;''

so the Targum: they are all corrupters;
as such that mix metals are; they are corrupters of themselves and of others, of the doctrines and manners of men, and of the ways and worship of God.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Myrrwo yro) "refractarii refractariorum", Schmidt; "contumacium contumacissimi", Junius & Tremellius.

Jeremiah 6:28 In-Context

26 Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

27 “I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.

28 They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.

29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

30 They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 5:23
• 2. S Leviticus 19:16; Jeremiah 9:4
• 3. Ezekiel 22:18