Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of them [are] stubborn rebels, going about [talking] slander. [They are] bronze and iron, they [are] all behaving 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.
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.
World English Bible
They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
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 an assayer among my people, a fortification, so that you may know and put to the test their ways. 28 All of them [are] stubborn rebels, going about [talking] slander. [They are] bronze and iron, they [are] all behaving corruptly. 29 [The] bellows are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. {In vain} {he keeps on refining}, but [the] wicked are not torn apart.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:4
"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.
Jeremiah 5:23
But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone [away].
Psalm 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son.
Isaiah 1:4-5
Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged [and gone] backward.
Isaiah 31:6
Turn back to [the one against] whom the sons of Israel have made deep rebellion.
Jeremiah 6:30
{They are called} rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them."
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from [the] priest, nor advice from [the] wise man, nor [the] word from [the] prophet. Come and {let us bring charges against him}, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words."
Jeremiah 20:10
For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror [is] from all around, denounce [him], yes, let us denounce him!" {All my close friends} [are] watchers of my stumbling, [saying], "perhaps he can be persuaded, and we can prevail over him, and we can take our revenge on him."
Ezekiel 22:18-22
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them [are as] bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, [even] [as] silver dross, silver [dross] they became!
Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
Revelation 19:2
because his judgments [are] true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves {shed by} her hand!"