All the wicked of the earth you count as dross; therefore I love your decrees.
Ezekiel 22:18 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Son of man, the house of Israel has become to Me scum and waste matter. All of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. American Standard Version (1901) Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver. Common English Bible Human one, the house of Israel has become a waste product for me. They are all copper, tin, iron, and lead. In the furnace, they’ve become the waste product of silver. Catholic Public Domain Version "Son of man, the house of Israel has become like dross to me. All these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace; they have become like the dross of silver. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me. All these are brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. |
All the wicked of the earth you count as dross; therefore I love your decrees.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;
I will turn my hand against you; I will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
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.
See, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.
Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
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.
Whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire.”