“I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 1 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.