Psalm 66:10
New International Version
For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

New Living Translation
You have tested us, O God; you have purified us like silver.

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

Berean Standard Bible
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

King James Bible
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

New King James Version
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us as silver is refined.

New American Standard Bible
For You have put us to the test, God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

NASB 1995
For You have tried us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

NASB 1977
For Thou hast tried us, O God; Thou hast refined us as silver is refined.

Legacy Standard Bible
For You have tested us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

Amplified Bible
For You have tested us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

Christian Standard Bible
For you, God, tested us; you refined us as silver is refined.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For You, God, tested us; You refined us as silver is refined.

American Standard Version
For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For you have tried us, God, and you have proved us like silver is tried.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou, O God, has proved us; thou hast tried us with fire as silver is tried.

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

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

English Revised Version
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.

Good News Translation
You have put us to the test, God; as silver is purified by fire, so you have tested us.

International Standard Version
For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For Thou, O God, hast tried us; Thou hast refined us, as silver is refined.

Literal Standard Version
For You have tried us, O God, | You have refined us as the refining of silver.

Majority Standard Bible
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

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

NET Bible
For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.

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

New Heart English Bible
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

World English Bible
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Young's Literal Translation
For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

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Context
Make a Joyful Noise
9He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping. 10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver. 11You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:15
If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

1 Peter 1:7
so that the proven character of your faith--more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Exodus 15:25
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

Job 23:10
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Psalm 7:9
Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

Psalm 17:3
You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

Psalm 26:2
Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.


Treasury of Scripture

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

hast proved us

Psalm 17:3
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Deuteronomy 8:2,16
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no…

Deuteronomy 13:3
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

tried

Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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

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Psalm 66
1. David exhorts to praise God
5. observe his great works
8. to bless him for his gracious benefits
12. He vows for himself reverent service to God
16. He declares God's special goodness to himself














Verse 10. - For thou, O God, hast proved us. The calamity bad been sent as a trial, to prove and purify (comp. Psalm 7:9; Psalm 11:5). Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried (comp. Psalm 12:6; Proverbs 17:3; Proverbs 25:4; Isaiah 1:22, 25; Isaiah 48:10; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:3). Silver, according to ancient methods, required a prolonged process of refining before it could be pronounced pure. The calamity under which Israel had suffered had been of long duration.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

You, O God,
אֱלֹהִ֑ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

have tested us;
בְחַנְתָּ֥נוּ (ḇə·ḥan·tā·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's 974: To test, to investigate

You have refined us
צְ֝רַפְתָּ֗נוּ (ṣə·rap̄·tā·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's 6884: To smelt, refine, test

like silver.
כָּֽסֶף׃ (kā·sep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money


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