13. Behold, I have clapped my hands over your avarice, which you have worked, and over the blood that has been shed in your midst.
14. How can your heart endure, or your hands prevail, in the days that I will bring upon you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act.
15. And I will disperse you among the nations, and I will scatter you among the lands, and I will cause your uncleanness to fade away from you.
16. And I will possess you in the sight of the Gentiles. And you shall know that I am the Lord."
17. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18. "Son of man, the house of Israel has become like dross to me. All these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace; they have become like the dross of silver.
19. Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Since you have all turned into dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem,
20. just as they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace, so that I may kindle in it a fire to melt it. So will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and I will be quieted, and I will melt you down.
21. And I will gather you together, and I will burn you in the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in its midst.