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Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 48:10 In-Context
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You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ears have not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.
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For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely.
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See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
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For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.
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“Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.
Cross References 3
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S Isaiah 1:25; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:3; 1 Peter 1:7