25 (A)I will turn my hand against you
    and will smelt away your (B)dross as with lye
    and remove all your alloy.

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25 I will turn my hand against you;[a](A)
    I will thoroughly purge(B) away your dross(C)
    and remove all your impurities.(D)

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  1. Isaiah 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem

He will sit (A)as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring (B)offerings in righteousness to the Lord.[a]

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  1. Malachi 3:3 Or and they will belong to the Lord, bringers of an offering in righteousness

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver;(A) he will purify(B) the Levites and refine them like gold and silver.(C) Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,(D)

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11 (A)“On that day (B)you shall not be put to shame
    because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;
for then (C)I will remove from your midst
    your proudly exultant ones,
and (D)you shall no longer be haughty
    in my holy mountain.

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11 On that day you, Jerusalem, will not be put to shame(A)
    for all the wrongs you have done to me,(B)
because I will remove from you
    your arrogant boasters.(C)
Never again will you be haughty
    on my holy hill.(D)

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22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; (A)I have poured out my wrath upon you.”

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22 As silver is melted(A) in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath(B) on you.’”(C)

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20 As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, (A)to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you (B)in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.

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20 As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.(A)

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38 (A)I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. (B)I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, (C)but they shall not enter the land of Israel. (D)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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38 I will purge(A) you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(B)

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Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, (A)I will refine them and (B)test them,
    for what else can I do, (C)because of my people?

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Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says:

“See, I will refine(A) and test(B) them,
    for what else can I do
    because of the sin of my people?

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29 The (A)bellows blow fiercely;
    the lead is consumed by the fire;
(B)in vain the refining goes on,
    for the wicked are not removed.

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29 The bellows blow fiercely
    to burn away the lead with fire,
but the refining(A) goes on in vain;
    the wicked are not purged out.

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11 Then I said, (A)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (B)cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
    and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 (C)And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned[a] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump (D)remains
    when it is felled.”
(E)The holy seed[b] is its stump.

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  1. Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
  2. Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring

11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(A)

And he answered:

“Until the cities lie ruined(B)
    and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(C)
    and the fields ruined and ravaged,(D)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away(E)
    and the land is utterly forsaken.(F)
13 And though a tenth remains(G) in the land,
    it will again be laid waste.(H)
But as the terebinth and oak
    leave stumps(I) when they are cut down,
    so the holy(J) seed will be the stump in the land.”(K)

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when (A)the Lord shall have washed away the filth of (B)the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by (C)a spirit of burning.[a]

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  1. Isaiah 4:4 Or purging

The Lord will wash away the filth(A) of the women of Zion;(B) he will cleanse(C) the bloodstains(D) from Jerusalem by a spirit[a] of judgment(E) and a spirit[b] of fire.(F)

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  1. Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit
  2. Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit

22 (A)Your silver has become dross,
    your best wine mixed with water.

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22 Your silver has become dross,(A)
    your choice wine is diluted with water.

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19 (A)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

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19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.(A) So be earnest and repent.(B)

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12 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and (B)gather his wheat into the barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”(A)

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