Psa 66:10, Pro 17:3, 25:4, Isa 1:25, 48:10, Jer 6:28-30, Eze 22:18-22 | ESV | STEP | For you, O God , have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried .

n[See ver. 28 above]

o[Isa. 1:25]

p Isa. 1:22; Ezek. 22:19, 20

qSee ch. 2:1

r Ps. 119:119; Isa. 1:22, 25

s Jer. 6:28

t Isa. 1:25

u ch. 21:31; [Mal. 3:3]

v Jer. 33:5

wSee ch. 7:8

Psalms 66:10

10 For you, O God, have ^atested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.

Proverbs 17:3

3 ^bThe crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
^cand the Lord tests hearts.

Proverbs 25:4

4 Take away ^dthe dross from the silver,
and ^ethe smith has material for a vessel;

Isaiah 1:25

25 ^fI will turn my hand against you
and will smelt away your ^gdross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.

Isaiah 48:10

10 Behold, I have refined you, ^hbut not as silver;
ⁱI have tried ^{▼▼Or I have chosen} you in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 6:28-30

28 ^kThey are all stubbornly rebellious,
^lgoing about with slanders;
they are ^mbronze and iron;
all of them act corruptly.
29 The ⁿbellows blow fiercely;
the lead is consumed by the fire;
^oin vain the refining goes on,
for the wicked are not removed.
30 ^pRejected silver they are called,
for the Lord has rejected them.”

Ezekiel 22:18-22

18 ^q“Son of man, the house of Israel has become ^rdross to me; all of them are ^sbronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are ^tdross of silver. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, ^uto blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you ^vin my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. 21 I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. 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; ^wI have poured out my wrath upon you.”