¹⁵ I will disperse you among the nations and scatter^(A) you through the countries; and I will put an end to^(B) your uncleanness.^(C)

¹⁴ ‘I scattered^(A) them with a whirlwind^(B) among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it.^(C) This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.^(D)’”

²⁷ The Lord will scatter^(A) you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive^(B) among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

²² As silver is melted^(A) in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath^(B) on you.’”^(C)

Suffering for Being a Christian

¹² Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you^(A) to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

¹² His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”^(A)

Judgment and Covenant Renewal

4 ^[a]“Surely the day is coming;^(A) it will burn like a furnace.^(B) All the arrogant^(C) and every evildoer will be stubble,^(D) and the day that is coming will set them on fire,^(E)” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch^(F) will be left to them.

³ He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver;^(A) he will purify^(B) the Levites and refine them like gold and silver.^(C) Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,^(D)