9. In you are men who carry slanders to shed blood. And in you they eat at the mountain shrines. In your midst they commit lewdness.
10. In you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.
11. One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
12. In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.
13. Therefore I have struck My hand toward your dishonest gain which you have made, and toward your blood which has been in your midst.
14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken and will do it.
15. I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you in the countries and consume your filthiness out of you.
16. You shall profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
17. The word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18. Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
19. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you all have become dross, therefore, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
20. As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of a furnace to blow fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will lay you there and melt you.
21. Indeed, I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
22. As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it. And you shall know that I the Lord have poured out My fury upon you.
23. The word of the Lord came to me, saying: