26. Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, as for an only son--bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.
27. I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28. They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
29. The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.
30. Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.