Isaiah 1:22
Good News Translation
Jerusalem, you were once like silver, but now you are worthless; you were like good wine, but now you are only water.

New Revised Standard Version
Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water.

Contemporary English Version
Your silver is fake, and your wine is watered down.

New American Bible
Your silver is turned to dross, your wine is mixed with water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.

silver

Jeremiah 6:28-30 All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted. . . .

Lamentations 4:1,2 Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street? . . .

Ezekiel 22:18-22 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. . . .

Hosea 6:4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

wine

Hosea 4:18 Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication: they that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon them.

2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

Context
The Corruption of Zion
21How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers. 22Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.23Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:119
I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Jeremiah 6:30
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.

Isaiah 1:21
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