Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.
Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.
Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
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This degeneracy of the magistrates, whose character is the reverse of that of their predecessors, is a great a reproach and injury to the kingdom as the debasing of their coin would be and the turning of their silver into dross. Righteous princes and righteous cities are as silver for the treasury, but unrighteous ones are as dross for the dunghill.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Thy princes and people are degenerate in "solid worth," equivalent to "silver" (Jer 6:28, 30; Eze 22:18, 19), and in their use of the living Word, equivalent to "wine" (So 7:9). mixed--literally, "circumcised." So the Arabic, "to murder" wine, equivalent to dilute it.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
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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.
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
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