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Jeremiah 6:28-30
New Catholic Bible
Jeremiah 6:28-30
New Catholic Bible
28 All of then are unrepentant rebels,
comfortable in slander and corrupt without exception,
hard as bronze and iron.
29 The bellows roar
and the lead is consumed by the fire.
In vain does the smelter do his work,
for the wicked are not purged out.[a]
30 They are called “rejected silver,”
for the Lord has indeed rejected them.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 6:29 Smelters of silver used lead because when this melted and oxidized on contact with air it drew to itself the dross from the precious metal.