26. Daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth,roll in the ashes.Mourn as for an only childwith bitter wailing:“How suddenly the destroyercomes upon us!”
27. A tester for my people I have appointed you,to search and test their way.
28. Arch-rebels are they all,dealers in slander,bronze and iron, all of them,destroyers they are.
29. The bellows are scorched,the lead is consumed by the fire;In vain has the refiner refined,the wicked are not drawn off.
30. “Silver rejected” they shall be called,for the Lord has rejected them.