30 They are called rejected silver,(A)
    because the Lord has rejected them.”(B)

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30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

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17 My God will reject(A) them
    because they have not obeyed(B) him;
    they will be wanderers among the nations.(C)

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17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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22 Your silver has become dross,(A)
    your choice wine is diluted with water.

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22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

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119 All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross;(A)
    therefore I love your statutes.(B)

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119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

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25 I will turn my hand against you;[a](A)
    I will thoroughly purge(B) away your dross(C)
    and remove all your impurities.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem

25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

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The Remnant of Israel

11 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means!(A) I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham,(B) from the tribe of Benjamin.(C)

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11 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Salt and Light

13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.(A)

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13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

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18 “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross(A) to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace.(B) They are but the dross of silver.(C) 19 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross,(D) I will gather you into Jerusalem.

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18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

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22 unless you have utterly rejected us(A)
    and are angry with us beyond measure.(B)

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22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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19 Have you rejected Judah completely?(A)
    Do you despise Zion?
Why have you afflicted us
    so that we cannot be healed?(B)
We hoped for peace
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(C)

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19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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29 “‘Cut off(A) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament(B) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned(C) this generation that is under his wrath.

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29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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Remove the dross from the silver,
    and a silversmith can produce a vessel;

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Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

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