Ezekiel 22:13-20 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.

14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!

15. I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.

16. And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

17. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

18. “Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became!

19. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because all of you have become as silver dross, therefore look! I am gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem,

20. like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will deposit you, and I will melt you.

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