⁴ And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.

² You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

³ Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

¹⁸ Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

¹⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.

²⁰ As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

²¹ Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.

²² As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

² For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.