Ezekiel 22:13-22

13“Behold, then, I strike with My hand your 1profit which you have made and 2the bloodshed which is among you. 14Can 3your heart endure, or can your hands be strong for the days that I will deal with you? 4I, the Lord, have spoken and will act. 15And I will 5scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the lands, and I will 6eliminate your uncleanness from you. 16Then you will defile yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will 7know that I am the Lord.”’”

17And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become 89waste metal to Me; all of them are 10bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the 11smelting furnace; they are the 12waste metal of silver. 19Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because all of you have become 13waste metal, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the 14smelting furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath, and I will place you there and melt you. 21And I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it. 22As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, the Lord, have 15poured out My wrath on you.’”