Parallel Verses
World English Bible
They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
New American Standard Bible
They are
They, all of them, are corrupt.
King James Version
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Holman Bible
spreading slander.
They are bronze and iron;
all of them are corrupt.
International Standard Version
All of them are very rebellious, going around as slanderers. They're bronze and iron, and all of them are corrupt.
A Conservative Version
They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders. They are brass and iron. They 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.
Amplified
They are all the worst [kind] of [stiff-necked, godless] rebels,
Going around spreading slander.
They are [not gold and silver ore, but] bronze and iron;
They are all corrupt.
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.
Darby Translation
They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
Julia Smith Translation
They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them.
King James 2000
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of them [are] stubborn rebels, going about [talking] slander. [They are] bronze and iron, they [are] all behaving corruptly.
Modern King James verseion
They are all grievous revolters, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they are all unfaithful and fallen away, they hang upon filthy lucre; they are clean brass and iron, for they hurt and destroyed every man.
NET Bible
I reported, "All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.
New Heart English Bible
"They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
The Emphasized Bible
They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander-walkers They are bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are!
Webster
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Youngs Literal Translation
All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously -- brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.
Themes
Brass » Illustrative of » Obstinate sinners
national Sins » Denunciations against
Slander » The wicked addicted to
Titles and names of the wicked » Grievous revolters
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
27 "I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way. 28 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. 29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:4
Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
Jeremiah 5:23
"But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.
Psalm 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
Isaiah 1:4-5
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
Isaiah 31:6
Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Ezekiel 22:18-22
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Revelation 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
Revelation 19:2
for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."