13. I now strike my hands over your ill-gotten gain and blood that’s been shed in you.
14. Will your strength and courage endure when I deal with you? I am the Lord: I speak, and I act!
15. I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and so I will remove your uncleanness from you.
16. When you are degraded like this in the sight of the nations, then you will know that I am the Lord.
17. The Lord’s word came to me:
18. Human one, the house of Israel has become a waste product for me. They are all copper, tin, iron, and lead. In the furnace, they’ve become the waste product of silver.