²⁰ But the Lord has taken you and ^(A)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, ^(B)to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.

^18 (A)“Son of man, the house of Israel has become ^(B)dross to me; all of them are ^(C)bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are ^(D)dross of silver.

²⁰ As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, ^(A)to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you ^(B)in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.

²² As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; ^(A)I have poured out my wrath upon you.”