Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. More severely, yet more exactly than silver (Stier)Less strictly than silver (Cheyne)It was a melting of a higher sort, the suffering which befell Israel doing for it the work of a furnace (Hitzig, Delitzsch)Possibly, not with the result of gaining silver (A. B. Davidson) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.WEB: Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. |
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