You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love Your Testimonies.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the refiner.

Your silver has become dross; your wine is diluted with water.

And I will turn back My hand upon you, and refine your dross, as with lye, and remove all your alloy.

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us such that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for the time of healing, and behold, terror!

unless You have utterly rejected us. You have been very angry against us.

My God shall cast them away because they did not give heed to Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

I say then, has God cast away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.