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Isaiah 1:22

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1:22 Your 1  silver has become scum, 2 

your beer is diluted with water. 3 

Isaiah 24:9

Context

24:9 They no longer sing and drink wine; 4 

the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

1 tn The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.

2 tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.

3 sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.

4 tn Heb “with a song they do not drink wine.”



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