14. Will your heart remain firm, will your hands be strong, in the days when I deal with you? I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will act!
15. I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you over other lands, so that I may purge your filth.
16. In you I will allow myself to be desecrated in the eyes of the nations; thus you shall 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 dross to me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead within a furnace; they have become the dross from silver.
19. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because all of you have become dross, See! I am gathering you within Jerusalem.
20. Just as silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin are gathered within a furnace to be blasted with fire to smelt it, so I will gather you together in my furious wrath, put you in, and smelt you.
21. When I have assembled you, I will blast you with the fire of my anger and smelt you with it.
22. Just as silver is smelted in a furnace, so you shall be smelted in it. Thus you shall know that I, the Lord, have poured out my fury on you.
23. The word of the Lord came to me:
24. Son of man, say to her: You are an unclean land receiving no rain at the time of my fury.