Ezekiel 22:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Mortal, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver, bronze, tin, iron, and lead. In the smelter they have become dross.

Cross References

Psalm 119:119

All the wicked of the earth I count as dross; therefore I love your decrees.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Proverbs 25:4

Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross; your wine is mixed with water.

Isaiah 1:25

I will turn my hand against you; I will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.

Isaiah 31:9

His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 48:10

See, I have refined you but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Ezekiel 22:17

The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 22:19

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22:20

As one gathers silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into a smelter, to blow the fire upon them in order to melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.

Daniel 3:6

Whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire.”