Other translations
American Standard Version
Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.
Darby Bible Translation
Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Rejected silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them.”
God's Word
[People] will call them useless silver because the LORD has rejected them."
Holman Christian Standard Bible
They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.
International Standard Version
They're called reject silver, because the LORD has rejected them.
NET Bible
They are regarded as 'rejected silver' because the LORD rejects them."
New American Standard Bible
They call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.
New International Version
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them."
New Living Translation
I will label them 'Rejected Silver,' for I, the LORD, am discarding them."
Webster's Bible Translation
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
The World English Bible
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."
EasyEnglish Bible
I, the Lord, cannot accept them, so they are like useless silver.’
Young‘s Literal Translation
`Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
New Life Version
They are called waste silver, because the Lord has turned away from them.
The Voice Bible
Now I, the Eternal, reject them as impure— “rejected silver” is what they will be called.
Living Bible
I must label them “Impure, Rejected Silver,” and I have discarded them.
New Catholic Bible
They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has indeed rejected them.
Legacy Standard Bible
They call them rejected silver Because Yahweh has rejected them.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Reprobate silver shall men call them because the LORD has rejected them.
Christian Standard Bible
They are called rejected silver, for the Lord has rejected them.
Amplified Bible © 1954
Men will call them reprobate and rejected silver [only dross, without good metal], because the Lord has rejected them.
New Century Version
My people will be called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.”
The Message
God gave me this task: “I have made you the examiner of my people, to examine and weigh their lives. They’re a thickheaded, hard-nosed bunch, rotten to the core, the lot of them. Refining fires are cranked up to white heat, but the ore stays a lump, unchanged. It’s useless to keep trying any longer. Nothing can refine evil out of them. Men will give up and call them ‘slag,’ thrown on the slag heap by me, their God.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
They are classified as rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.
Good News Translation®
They will be called worthless dross, because I, the Lord, have rejected them.”
Wycliffe Bible
Call ye them reprovable silver (Call ye them worthless silver), for the Lord hath cast them away.
Contemporary English Version
Silver can be purified in a fiery furnace, but my people are too wicked to be made pure, and so I have rejected them.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Refuse silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
They are called ‘rejected silver’, for the Lord has rejected them.
Common English Bible © 2011
They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.
Amplified Bible © 2015
They call them rejected silver [only dross, without value], Because the Lord has rejected them.
English Standard Version Anglicised
Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
“Silver rejected” they shall be called, for the Lord has rejected them.
New American Standard Bible
They call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.
The Expanded Bible
My people will be called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them [Ezek. 22:17–22].”
Tree of Life Version
They are called ‘cast off silver’— for Adonai has cast them off.”
Revised Standard Version
Refuse silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
New International Reader's Version
They are like silver that is thrown away. That is because I have not accepted them.”
BRG Bible
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
Complete Jewish Bible
They are called ‘rejected silver,’ because Adonai has rejected them.”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
They are called ‘rejected silver’, for the Lord has rejected them.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Nimas kesef (reprobate silver, rejected silver) shall men call them, because Hashem hath rejected them.
Names of God Bible
People will call them useless silver because Yahweh has rejected them.”
Modern English Version
Men will call them rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
Easy-to-Read Version
My people will be called ‘Rejected Silver.’ They will be given that name because the Lord did not accept them.”
International Children’s Bible
My people will be called rejected silver. They will be given that name because the Lord has rejected them.”
Lexham English Bible
They are called rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them.”
New International Version - UK
They are called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.’