Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous apostates, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
27I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:16You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbour; I am the LORD.
Psalms 50:20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander yours own mother's son.
Isaiah 1:4Ah 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.
Jeremiah 5:23But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 7:28But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receives correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jeremiah 9:4Take all of you heed every one of his neighbour, and trust all of you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
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 →