American King James Version
"Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. "
— Isaiah 48:10, American King James Version
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ”
“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.”
“Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.”
“Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.”
“See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.”
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heard them not; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
Yes, you heard not; yes, you knew not; yes, from that time that your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb. ¶
For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I cut you not off.
Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory to another. ¶
Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.