Isa 48:10 | NETfull | STEP | Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

Isaiah 48:10

10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have purified you ^{▼▼ The Hebrew text has בְּחַרְתִּיךָ (b^ekhartikha, “I have chosen you”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly בחנתיכה (“I have tested you”). The metallurgical background of the imagery suggests that purification through testing is the idea.} in the furnace of misery.