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Isaiah 48:10
New English Translation
Isaiah 48:10
New English Translation
10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have purified you[a] in the furnace of misery.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 48:10 tc The Hebrew text has בְּחַרְתִּיךָ (bekhartikha, “I have chosen you”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa reads correctly בחנתיכה (“I have tested you”). The metallurgical background of the imagery suggests that purification through testing is the idea.
New English Translation (NET)
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