[22:17] The Lord said to me,
[22:18] “Mortal man, the Israelites are of no use to me. They are like waste metal—copper, tin, iron, and lead—left over after silver has been refined in a furnace.
[22:19] So now I, the Sovereign Lord, am telling them that they are just as useless as that. I will bring them all together in Jerusalem
[22:20] in the same way that the ore of silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin is put in a refining furnace. My anger and rage will melt them the way fire melts ore.
[22:21] Yes, I will gather them in Jerusalem, build a fire under them, and melt them with my anger.
[22:22] They will be melted in Jerusalem the way silver is melted in a furnace, and then they will know that they are feeling the anger of the Lord.”