Rebellion against him is as bad as witchcraft, and arrogance is as sinful as idolatry. Because you rejected the LORD's command, he has rejected you as king."

They will be called worthless dross, because I, the LORD, have rejected them."

"Mortal man, the Israelites are of no use to me. They are like waste metal---copper, tin, iron, and lead---left over after silver has been refined in a furnace.

in the same way that the ore of silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin is put in a refining furnace. My anger and rage will melt them the way fire melts ore.

They will be melted in Jerusalem the way silver is melted in a furnace, and then they will know that they are feeling the anger of the LORD."

But who will be able to endure the day when he comes? Who will be able to survive when he appears? He will be like strong soap, like a fire that refines metal.

He will come to judge like one who refines and purifies silver. As a metalworker refines silver and gold, so the LORD's messenger will purify the priests, so that they will bring to the LORD the right kind of offerings.

He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out."

Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!'

Just as the weeds are gathered up and burned in the fire, so the same thing will happen at the end of the age:

and they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

Your commandments are my eternal possession; they are the joy of my heart.

LORD, it is time for you to act, because people are disobeying your law.

And so I follow all your instructions; I hate all wrong ways.