14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!
15. I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
16. You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
17. The word of the Lord came to me:
18. “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.
19. Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem.
20. As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.
21. I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.
22. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”
23. The word of the Lord came to me: