Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

All of them are stubbornly rebellious,
Going about as a talebearer.
They are bronze and iron;
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

All are stubborn rebels
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

with slanders
רכיל 
Rakiyl 
Usage: 6

נחשׁת 
N@chosheth 
Usage: 140

and iron
בּרזל 
Barzel 
Usage: 76

References

Context Readings

An Invasion From The North

27 “I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people,
That you may know and assay their way.”
28 All of them are stubbornly rebellious,
Going about as a talebearer.
They are bronze and iron;
They, all of them, are corrupt.
29 The bellows blow fiercely,
The lead is consumed by the fire;
In vain the refining goes on,
But the wicked are not separated.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:4

“Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
Because every brother deals craftily,
And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Jeremiah 5:23

‘But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
They have turned aside and departed.

Psalm 50:20

“You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.

Isaiah 1:4-5

Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.

Isaiah 31:6

Return to Him from whom you have deeply defected, O sons of Israel.

Jeremiah 6:30

They call them rejected silver,
Because the Lord has rejected them.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the whispering of many,
Terror on every side!
Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”
All my trusted friends,
Watching for my fall, say:
“Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him
And take our revenge on him.”

Ezekiel 22:18-22

“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 the dross of silver.

Revelation 11:18

And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those 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; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.”

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