25. Do not go out to the fieldsor walk on the roads,for the enemy has a sword,and there is terror on every side.
26. Put on sackcloth, my people,and roll in ashes;mourn with bitter wailingas for an only son,for suddenly the destroyerwill come upon us.
27. ‘I have made you a tester of metalsand my people the ore,that you may observeand test their ways.
28. They are all hardened rebels,going about to slander.They are bronze and iron;they all act corruptly.
29. The bellows blow fiercelyto burn away the lead with fire,but the refining goes on in vain;the wicked are not purged out.
30. They are called rejected silver,because the Lord has rejected them.’