Reprobate silver; or, Refuse silver; such as will be rejected in payments; they are not to be purged or reformed.
Shall men call them; or, be called, i.e. they shall be esteemed such as will not pass for current before God or good men, Lam_3:45.
Because the Lord hath rejected them; the prophet gives the reason of their being accounted such refuse stuff, viz. because God, who knew their hypocrisy in boasting of themselves, had rejected them, Lam_5:22; therefore every one else would.