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.

³ The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,^(A)
    but the Lord tests the heart.^(B)

4 ^[a]How the gold has lost its luster,
    the fine gold become dull!
The sacred gems are scattered
    at every street corner.^(A)

² How the precious children of Zion,^(B)
    once worth their weight in gold,
are now considered as pots of clay,
    the work of a potter’s hands!