Reprobate silver shall men call them,.... Or, "call ye them" , as the Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; by whom are meant the Jews, who thought themselves of some account, as silver; being the seed of Abraham, and having the law, the covenant and promises, and service of God; when those that tried them, as the prophets, found them to be nothing but dross; and therefore, if they must be called silver, they could call them no other than reprobate silver; or what is of no account and value; and which is confirmed by the following reason, which contains the judgment and conduct of him that cannot err:for the Lord hath rejected them; from being his people; and therefore cast them out of their own land, and caused them to go into captivity.
Mhl warq kalesete autouv, "vocate eos": V. L. Pagninus.