Ezekiel 22:18
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.
Psalm 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.
Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
Isaiah 48:10
See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.
Jeremiah 6:28-30
All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
Proverbs 17:3
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
Isaiah 1:25
And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;
Isaiah 31:9
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.
Isaiah 48:4
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
Lamentations 4:1-2
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.
Ezekiel 22:20
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.