19. So this is what the Lord God says: Because you’ve all become a waste product, I’m now gathering you into the middle of Jerusalem.
20. Just as silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin are collected and placed in a furnace to fan the flames under them and melt them down, so in my anger and rage I will collect you, put you in, and melt you down.
21. I will gather you, fan the flames of my wrath under you, and melt you down in the middle of it.
22. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it. You will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my rage on you.
23. The Lord’s word came to me:
24. Human one, say to her, You are an unclean land without rain on the day of reckoning.
25. The conspiracy of princes in her is like a roaring lion ripping up prey. They’ve piled up wealth and precious goods and made many widows in her.