Isaiah 1:25
25 I will turn my hand against you
and will smelt away your dross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.
Jeremiah 2:22
22 Though you wash yourself ewith lye
and use much soap,
the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God.
Malachi 3:2
2 But mwho can endure the day of his coming, and nwho can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
