10 For you, O God, have (A)tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.

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(A)The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
    (B)and the Lord tests hearts.

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10 Behold, I have refined you, (A)but not as silver;
    (B)I have tried[a] you in the furnace of affliction.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:10 Or I have chosen

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