Psalms 66:10
8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
- KJV
- For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
- WEB
- For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
- ASV
- For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
- DARBY
- For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
- BLB
- For You have tested us, O God; You have refined us like the refining of silver.
- ÅB
- For du prøvde oss, Gud, du renset oss, slik som de renser sølv.
- OTB
- For Du har prøvd oss, Gud;
Du har lutret oss som sølv lutres. - B1930
- For du prøvde oss, Gud, du renset oss, likesom de renser sølv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Read in contextPsalms 17:3
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Read in context1 Peter 1:6–7
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Read in contextProverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Read in contextJob 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Read in contextZechariah 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:16
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
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