Isaiah 1:25
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25 I will turn my hand against you;
I will smelt away your dross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.(A)
Malachi 3:3
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3 he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.[a](A)
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- 3.3 Or right offerings to the Lord
Zephaniah 3:11
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11 On that day you shall not be put to shame
because of all the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;
for then I will remove from your midst
your proudly exultant ones,
and you shall no longer be haughty
in my holy mountain.(A)
Ezekiel 22:22
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22 As silver is melted in a smelter, so you shall be melted in it, and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you.(A)
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Ezekiel 22:20
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20 As one gathers silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into a smelter, to blow the fire upon them in order to melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
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Ezekiel 20:38
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38 I will purge out the rebels among you and those who transgress against me; I will bring them out of the land where they reside as aliens, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.(A)
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Jeremiah 9:7
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7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
I will now refine and test them,
for what else can I do with the daughter of my people?(A)
Jeremiah 6:29
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29 The bellows blow fiercely;
the lead is consumed by the fire;[a]
in vain the refining goes on,
for the wicked are not removed.
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- 6.29 Cn: Heb lead from their fire
Isaiah 6:11-13
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11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said,
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is utterly desolate;(A)
12 until the Lord sends everyone far away,
and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.(B)
13 Even if a tenth part remain in it,
it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
whose stump remains standing
when it is felled.”[a]
(The holy seed is its stump.)(C)
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- 6.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 4:4
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4 once the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.(A)
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Isaiah 1:22
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22 Your silver has become dross;
your wine is mixed with water.(A)
Revelation 3:19
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19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.(A)
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Matthew 3:12
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12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”(A)
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Zechariah 13:7-9
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The Shepherd Struck, the Flock Scattered
7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who is my associate,”
says the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.(A)
8 In the whole land, says the Lord,
two-thirds shall be cut off and perish,
and one-third shall be left alive.(B)
9 And I will put this third into the fire,
refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”(C)
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