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But I have found that you are worthless. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/48-10.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/48-10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/48-10.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/48.htm">Chapter 48</a> > Verse 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/48-9.htm" title="Isaiah 48:9">◄</a> Isaiah 48:10 <a href="../isaiah/48-11.htm" title="Isaiah 48:11">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/48.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/48.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I have tested you in the fire of suffering, as silver is refined in a furnace. But I have found that you are worthless. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/48.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />See, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/48.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I tested you in hard times just as silver is refined in a heated furnace. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/48.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />See, I refined you, but not like silver; I tested you in the furnace of affliction. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/48.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.</p><p class="hdg">I have refined</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-25.htm">Isaiah 1:25,26</a> And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/23-10.htm">Job 23:10</a> But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/66-10.htm">Psalm 66:10</a> For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/17-3.htm">Proverbs 17:3</a> As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-7.htm">Jeremiah 9:7</a> Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/20-38.htm">Ezekiel 20:38</a> And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/22-18.htm">Ezekiel 22:18-22</a> Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/13-8.htm">Zechariah 13:8,9</a> And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in it shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be left therein. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/3-2.htm">Malachi 3:2,3</a> And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/12-10.htm">Hebrews 12:10,11</a> And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/1-7.htm">1 Peter 1:7</a> That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/4-12.htm">1 Peter 4:12</a> Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you: as if some new thing happened to you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/3-19.htm">Revelation 3:19</a> Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.</p><p class="hdg">with silver, or, for silver </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/4-20.htm">Deuteronomy 4:20</a> But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/48.htm">Israel's Stubbornness</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish. <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl">Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.</span><span class="reftext">11</span>For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/4-20.htm">Deuteronomy 4:20</a></span><br />But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/8-51.htm">1 Kings 8:51</a></span><br />For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/66-10.htm">Psalm 66:10</a></span><br />For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/27-9.htm">Isaiah 27:9</a></span><br />Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-7.htm">Jeremiah 9:7</a></span><br />Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/11-4.htm">Jeremiah 11:4</a></span><br />Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice, and do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/22-18.htm">Ezekiel 22:18</a></span><br />Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../zechariah/13-9.htm">Zechariah 13:9</a></span><br />And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/30-20.htm">Affliction</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-4.htm">Chosen</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-14.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-9.htm">Furnace</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-6.htm">Refined</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-6.htm">Silver</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm">Tested</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-9.htm">Testing</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm">Tried</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-7.htm">Trouble</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/63-9.htm">Affliction</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-14.htm">Chosen</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-11.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-4.htm">Furnace</a> <a href="/daniel/11-35.htm">Refined</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-9.htm">Silver</a> <a href="/daniel/1-14.htm">Tested</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-20.htm">Testing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-27.htm">Tried</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-4.htm">Trouble</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/isaiah/48-10.htm">Isaiah 48:10 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: affliction as Behold but furnace have I in not of refined See silver tested the though you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/isaiah/48-10.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 48:10 Behold I have refined you but not (Isa Isi Is) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/48-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 48:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 48:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/48-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 48:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 48:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>