Ezekiel 22:16 YLT

¹⁴  Doth thy heart stand -- are thy hands strong, For the days that I am dealing with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done 'it'.

¹⁵  And I have scattered thee among nations, And have spread thee out among lands, And consumed thy uncleanness out of thee.

¹⁶  And thou hast been polluted in thyself Before the eyes of nations, And thou hast known that I 'am' Jehovah.'

¹⁷  And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'Son of man,

¹⁸  The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them 'are' brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been,