I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved Your testimonies.

Your silver is worthless, your wine merchants mix the wine with water.

[They are] all disobedient, walking perversely. [They are] brass and iron; they are all corrupted.

Call them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

As silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take [you] in My wrath, and I will gather and melt you.

I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.

ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! The sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.

BETH. The precious sons of Zion, who were equaled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!

As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.

for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be overcome; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus says the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Zion, and household friends in Jerusalem.

Behold, I have sold you, [but] not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.