Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.
All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.
I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’
Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;
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