14. Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken and will act.
15. I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.
16. You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am the Lord."'"
17. And 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 furnace; they are the dross of silver.
19. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, 'Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.