15. I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
16. You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will 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 slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.