12. There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood. You exact interest and usury; you extort profit from your neighbor by violence. But me you have forgotten—oracle of the Lord God.
13. See, I am clapping my hands because of the profits you extorted and the blood shed in your midst.
14. Will your heart remain firm, will your hands be strong, in the days when I deal with you? I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will act!
15. I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you over other lands, so that I may purge your filth.
16. In you I will allow myself to be desecrated in the eyes of the nations; thus you shall know that I am the Lord.
17. The word of the Lord came to me:
18. Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead within a furnace; they have become the dross from silver.
19. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because all of you have become dross, See! I am gathering you within Jerusalem.
20. Just as silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin are gathered within a furnace to be blasted with fire to smelt it, so I will gather you together in my furious wrath, put you in, and smelt you.
21. When I have assembled you, I will blast you with the fire of my anger and smelt you with it.
22. Just as silver is smelted in a furnace, so you shall be smelted in it. Thus you shall know that I, the Lord, have poured out my fury on you.
23. The word of the Lord came to me:
24. Son of man, say to her: You are an unclean land receiving no rain at the time of my fury.