Ezekiel 22:19
Good News Translation
So now I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling them that they are just as useless as that. I will bring them all together in Jerusalem

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
So I am going to bring them together in Jerusalem.

New American Bible
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because all of you have become dross, See! I am gathering you within Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem.

I will.

Ezekiel 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, all this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 24:3-6 And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it. . . .

Micah 4:12 And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they say: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.

Matthew 13:40,40-42 Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world. . . .

Context
The Refining Furnace
18Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. 19Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned into dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of Jerusalem.20As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt you down.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:119
I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

Isaiah 1:25
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 22:20
As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so will I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my rest, and I will melt you down.

Ezekiel 22:18
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