Psalm 66:10 {65:10}
Good News Translation
You have put us to the test, God; as silver is purified by fire, so you have tested us.

New Revised Standard Version
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

Contemporary English Version
Our God, you tested us, just as silver is tested.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

hast proved us

Psalm 17:3 Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.

Deuteronomy 8:2,16 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. . . .

Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not.

tried

Proverbs 17:3 As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Isaiah 48:10 Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

1 Peter 1:6,7 Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations: . . .

Context
Make a Joyful Noise
9Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be moved: 10For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.11Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on our back:…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:15
If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

Exodus 15:25
But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

Job 23:10
But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Psalm 7:9
The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought; and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God. Just

Psalm 17:3
Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.

Psalm 26:2
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

Psalm 105:19
Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.

Isaiah 48:10
Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.

Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.

Psalm 66:9
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