Jeremiah 6:30

¹⁷My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

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

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

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

¹⁹Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

²²But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.

¹³“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

¹I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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. ¹⁹Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.

²⁹Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.