²² Your silver has become dross,^(A)
    your choice wine is diluted with water.

²⁸ They are all hardened rebels,^(A)
    going about to slander.^(B)
They are bronze and iron;^(C)
    they all act corruptly.
²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely
    to burn away the lead with fire,
but the refining^(D) goes on in vain;
    the wicked are not purged out.
³⁰ They are called rejected silver,^(E)
    because the Lord has rejected them.”^(F)

¹⁰ See, I have refined^(A) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested^(B) you in the furnace^(C) of affliction.