Ezekiel 22:18

WEB

¹⁸“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

KJV

¹⁸Son 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.

BSB

¹⁸“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

FBV

¹⁸“Son of man, the people of Israel have ended up like the impurities left over from refining metal. They're all like copper, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace—they are just the impurities left from refining silver.

Extra References

Psalms 119:119

¹¹⁹You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

Isaiah 1:22

²²Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

Jeremiah 6:28-30

²⁸They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly. ²⁹The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away. ³⁰Men will call them rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

Isaiah 48:10

¹⁰Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Proverbs 17:3

³The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.

Isaiah 48:4

⁴Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

Ezekiel 22:20

²⁰As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.

Lamentations 4:1-2

¹How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. ²The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Isaiah 31:9

⁹His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 1:25

²⁵I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.