John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 6:28

"They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly." — Jeremiah 6:28 (ASV)

They are all grievous revolters From the right way of God and his worship: or, they are all revolters of revolters^F5 ; of all, the greatest revolters, the greatest sinners and transgressors, the most stubborn and disobedient; or sons of revolters; fathers and children are alike.

The Targum, is, ``all their princes rebel;'' and so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions:

"walking with slanders": of one another; or with deceit, as the Targum; in a hypocritical and fraudulent manner; playing the hypocrite with God, or tricking and deceiving their neighbours.

They are "brass and iron"; as vile and mean as those metals, and not as gold and silver; or as hard and inflexible as they are; or they deal as insincerely ``as he that mixes brass with iron;'' so the Targum:

they are all corrupters ; as such that mix metals are; they are corrupters of themselves and of others, of the doctrines and manners of men, and of the ways and worship of God.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F5: (Myrrwo yro) "refractarii refractariorum", Schmidt; "contumacium contumacissimi", Junius & Tremellius.