Jeremiah 6:28 “All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze…”

Jeremiah 6:28

All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

American Standard Version

They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

Geneva Bible 1599

They are all rebellious traitours, walking craftily: they are brasse, and yron, they all are destroyers.

Darby Translation

They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

Young's Literal Translation

All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously — brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.

Bible in Basic English

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

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Cross references

“all grievous”

Jeremiah 5:23 Isaiah 31:6 Isaiah 1:5

Jeremiah 5:23 · BSB

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

Isaiah 31:6 · BSB

Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

Isaiah 1:5 · BSB

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

“walking”

Jeremiah 9:4 Jeremiah 18:18 Jeremiah 20:10 Psalm 50:20

Jeremiah 9:4 · BSB

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

Jeremiah 18:18 · BSB

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his word…

Jeremiah 20:10 · BSB

For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our ve…

Psalm 50:20 · BSB

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

“they are brass”

Ezekiel 22:18–22 Jeremiah 6:30

Ezekiel 22:18–22 · BSB

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

Jeremiah 6:30 · BSB

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

“corrupters”

Revelation 11:18 Revelation 19:2 Isaiah 1:4

Revelation 11:18 · BSB

The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great— and to destroy th…

Revelation 19:2 · BSB

For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

Isaiah 1:4 · BSB

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

29The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.

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