Focused Passage
Stand at the Crossroads: False Peace and Rejected Silver
The chapter moves from urgent flight before northern invasion, to Jerusalem's ripeness for siege, to the LORD's grief over a people who refuse warning, to the rejection of false peace and empty worship, and finally to the image of Judah as rejected silver after failed refining.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
27“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
28All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
29The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
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