Psalm 66:10 For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

English Standard Version
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

New American Standard Bible
For You have tried us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

King James Bible
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For You, God, tested us; You refined us as silver is refined.

International Standard Version
For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

American Standard Version
For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

Darby Bible Translation
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Young's Literal Translation
For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Exodus 15:25
And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 7:9
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and reins.

Psalm 17:3
You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Psalm 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Psalm 105:19
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

66:8-12 The Lord not only preserves our temporal life, but maintains the spiritual life which he has given to believers. By afflictions we are proved, as silver in the fire. The troubles of the church will certainly end well. Through various conflicts and troubles, the slave of Satan escapes from his yoke, and obtains joy and peace in believing: through much tribulation the believer must enter into the kingdom of God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10-12. Out of severe trials, God had brought them to safety (compare Isa 48:10; 1Pe 1:7).