🔥WEB · Ezekiel 22:18
What does Ezekiel 22:18 mean?
"“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver."
— Ezekiel 22:18 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.
You will be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.
As they gather silver, brass, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
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