Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:22 : 22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
• Ps 119:119 : 119 All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.
• Isa 48:10 : 10 See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.
• Jer 6:28-30 : 28 All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit. 29 The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away. 30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
• Prov 17:3 : 3 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
• Lam 4:1-2 : 1 How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street. 2 The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
• Ezek 22:20 : 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.
• Isa 1:25 : 25 And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;
• Isa 31:9 : 9 And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.
• Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;