26. My people,put on funeral clothes and roll in ashes;weep and wail as for an only child,because the destroyer will suddenly descend upon us.
27. I have made you a tester of metals,to examine my peopleto know and prove their ways.
28. They are tin and iron;they are headstrong and rebellious.They live to slander.They act corruptly—every last one!
29. The bellows roar;the lead is consumed.Yet the refining fails;the impurities remain.
30. They are called "rejected silver,"for the Lord has rejected them.