26. Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
27. “I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.
28. They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
29. The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
30. Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”