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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 49:17

Context

49:17 Your children hurry back,

while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

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.



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