Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

你的银子变为渣滓；你的酒用水搀兑。

你的银子变为渣滓，你的酒用水冲淡。

你的银子变为渣滓，你的酒用水冲淡。

你曾经像银子，现在却像渣滓；曾经像美酒，现在却像搀了水的酒。

你的银子变成了渣滓，你的酒用水搀混。

你的银子成了渣滓，你的酒掺了水。

你的銀子變為渣滓；你的酒用水攙對。

你的銀子變為渣滓，你的酒用水沖淡。

你的銀子變為渣滓，你的酒用水沖淡。

你曾經像銀子，現在卻像渣滓；曾經像美酒，現在卻像攙了水的酒。

你的銀子變成了渣滓，你的酒用水攙混。

你的銀子變為渣滓，你的美酒用水攙雜。

你的銀子成了渣滓，你的酒摻了水。

爾銀為滓、酒雜以水、

爾銀變為滓、爾酒雜以水、

爾銀變為渣、爾酒雜以水、

Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.

Jerusalem, your silver isn’t pure anymore. Your best wine has been made weak with water.

Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.

Once like pure silver, you have become like worthless slag. Once so pure, you are now like watered down wine.

Your silver has become dross to be discarded, your beer is diluted with water.

Your silver has become waste matter, Your drink diluted with water.

Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water.

Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

Your silver has become dross, your beer is diluted with water.

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

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

“ Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says:‘ Because all of you have become slag, look out!– I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem.As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my anger on you.’”

Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.ב( Bet)The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold– Alas!– but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.ג( Gimel)

They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior.

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.The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.They are regarded as‘ rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!