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Isaiah 1:22

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1:22Your55 silver has become scum,56

your beer is diluted with water.57

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Footnotes

  1. 55 The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.
  2. 56 Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.
  3. 57 The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Your silver has become dross,

your best wine mixed with water.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Your silver has become dross,

your choice wine is diluted with water.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Your silver has become dross to be discarded,

your beer is diluted with water.

NLTNew Living Translation

Once like pure silver,

you have become like worthless slag.

Once so pure,

you are now like watered-down wine.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Your silver has become as dross;

Your wine is diluted with waters.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thy silver is become dross,

Thy wine mixed with water: