Isaiah 1:25-31

²⁵I will raise my fist to strike you. I will punish you severely MET, as though MET you were silver and I needed to heat you very greatly to melt you and get rid of the impurities.

²⁶After that happens, I will give you good judges like you had previously; you will have wise counselors like you had long ago. Then people will call your city ‘a city where people act righteously,’ a city where people are loyal to me.' ”

²⁷Because the people of Jerusalem will do what is fair/just, their city will be restored; those who repent will be saved because of their acting righteously.

²⁸But rebels and sinners will be crushed by Yahweh, and those who forsake him will disappear.

²⁹You will be ashamed because you worshiped idols under the oak trees that you considered to be sacred; you will be disgraced because you worshiped idols in the gardens where you chose to worship them.

³⁰You will be like SIM a very large tree which has withered leaves, like SIM a garden that is dried up because it has no water.

³¹Those among you who are very strong will become like MET dry wood, and the work they do will be like MET a spark; both they and the evil things that they do will burn up completely, and no one will be able to put out the fire.