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Reprobate - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross.
The Lord hath rejected them - This then is the end. The smel…

Reprobate silver. —Better, as in the margin, refuse silver; the dross and not the metal; so worthless that even Jehovah, …

Jeremiah concludes his subject by saying that if the Jews had been cast a hundred times into the furnace, they would not be improved, as they would…

Reprobate silver shall men call them
Or, "call you them" F9, as the Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate La…

God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered…

Here, he shows the people’s inability to be corrected.
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes