Ezekiel 22:17-19

Good News Translation

God's Refining Furnace

¹⁷ The Lord said to me, 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. 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