12 They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain from your neighbors by extortion, and so you have forgotten me, declares the Lord Yahweh.
13 And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.
14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!
15 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.
16 And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”
17 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became!