Isaiah 48:10

New American Bible - revised edition

See, I refined you, but not like silver; I tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:51

For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace.

Job 23:10

Yet he knows my way; if he tested me, I should come forth like gold.

Job 28:1

There is indeed a mine for silver, and a place for refining gold.

Psalm 66:10

You tested us, O God, tried us as silver tried by fire.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the tester of hearts is the Lord.

Isaiah 27:9

This, then, shall be the expiation of Jacob’s guilt, this the result of removing his sin: He shall pulverize all the stones of the altars like pieces of chalk; no asherahs or incense altars shall stand.

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded your ancestors the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, that iron furnace, saying: Listen to my voice and do all that I command you. Then you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 9:7

A murderous arrow is their tongue, their mouths utter deceit; They speak peaceably with their neighbors, but in their hearts they lay an ambush!

Ezekiel 20:38

I will sort out from you those who defied me and rebelled against me; from the land where they resided as aliens I will bring them out, but they shall not return to the land of Israel. Thus you shall know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:20

but you the Lord has taken and led out of that iron foundry, Egypt, that you might be his people, his heritage, as you are today.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as if something strange were happening to you.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.