13. “ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.
14. Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
15. I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.
16. When you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord.’ ”
17. Then the word of the Lord came to me:
18. “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver.
19. Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
20. As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.
21. I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her.
22. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”