Ezekiel 22:17-22

Modern English Version

Jerusalem as God’s Furnace

¹⁷ The word of the Lord came to me, saying: ¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you all have become dross, therefore, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. ²⁰ As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of a furnace to blow fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will lay you there and melt you. ²¹ Indeed, I will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it. And you shall know that I the Lord have poured out My fury upon you.