Jeremiah 6:28

They're all stubborn rebels going around talking slander. They are hard as bronze and iron; they are all corrupt.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

27Jeremiah, I have made you a tester of metals so you can test my people as if they were metal, so you can know what they're made of and how they act.

29The bellows in the refiner's furnace blow powerfully, burning away the lead. But this refining is pointless, because the wicked are not purified.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:16Don't go around spreading false rumors about people. Don't keep quiet when the lives of others are at risk. I am the Lord.

Psalms 50:20You sit there and speak against your brother, slandering your own mother's son.

Isaiah 1:4What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.

Jeremiah 5:23But you people have a stubborn and rebellious attitude. You have left me and gone your own way.

Jeremiah 7:28So you have to tell them, “This is the nation that refused to listen to what the Lord their God said, and would not accept the Lord's discipline. Truth has died out; people don't even talk about it.

Jeremiah 9:4Everyone, watch out for your friends! Don't even trust your brother! Every brother is deceitful, and every friend slanders other people.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:19-30

Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 608.) 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. 21 Therefore thus saith the… Read the whole commentary →

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