the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Psalms 66:10
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For You have tested us, O God;You have refined us as silver is refined.
For You have tried us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.
For thou O Lord hast proued vs: thou hast tryed vs, like as siluer is tryed.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us as silver is refined.
For You, O God, have proved us; You have tested us as silver is refined.
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
For thou, O God, hast proued vs: thou hast tried vs, as siluer is tryed.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Thou hast brought vs in to captiuyte, and layed trouble vpon or loynes.
For You have tested us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.
For you, O God, have proved us: You have tried us, as silver is tried.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.
Our God, you tested us, just as silver is tested.
For you, God, have tested us, refined us as silver is refined.
For thou, O God, hast proued vs, thou hast tryed vs as siluer is tryed.
For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
For Thou, O God, hast tried us; Thou hast refined us, as silver is refined.
You have tested us, O God; you have purified us like silver.
For You have tested us, O God. You have made us pure like silver is made pure.
For thou, O God, has proved us; thou hast tried us with fire as silver is tried.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
For thou didst prove us, O God, Thou didst refine us, according to the refining of silver:
(65-10) For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.
For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
For You have put us to the test, God; You have refined us as silver is refined.
God, you have tested us; you have purified us like silver.
You have put us to the test, God; as silver is purified by fire, so you have tested us.
For You, God, tested us; You refined us as silver is refined.
For thou, God, hast preued vs; thou hast examyned vs bi fier, as siluer is examyned.
For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.
For thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hast proved us: Psalms 17:3, Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:16, Deuteronomy 13:3
tried: Proverbs 17:3, Isaiah 48:10, Zechariah 13:9, 1 Peter 1:6, 1 Peter 1:7
Reciprocal: Exodus 15:25 - proved Judges 2:22 - prove Judges 7:4 - I will Ezra 8:35 - offered burnt Job 19:6 - God Job 23:10 - he hath Psalms 12:6 - as silver Psalms 26:2 - General Psalms 71:20 - which Psalms 84:6 - Who Psalms 118:18 - chastened Psalms 138:7 - Though I walk Proverbs 27:21 - the fining Isaiah 43:2 - passest Zechariah 10:11 - he shall Malachi 3:3 - sit
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thou, O God, hast proved us,.... And by the experiment found them to be true and faithful; to have the truth of grace, and the root of the matter in them; not reprobate silver, or their grace counterfeit grace; but of the right kind, solid and substantial;
thou hast tried us as silver is tried; in a furnace, where it is put and melted by the refiner, and purified from the dross that attends it. So the Targum,
"thou hast purified us as the silversmith purifieth the silver;''
or tries it by melting and purifying it. Thus the Lord puts his people into the furnace of afflictions, and sits as a refiner and purifier of them; hereby he tries their graces, faith, patience, hope, and love, their principles and their professions; refines their graces, and makes them more bright and illustrious; removes their dross and tin, and reforms their manners; and proves them to be good silver, and approves of them, and esteems them as such, even as his peculiar treasure. From whence it appears, as well as from the following verses, that afflictions are of God; that they are for the good of his people, and not their hurt; like silver they are put into the fire of affliction, not to be destroyed and lost, but to be purged and refined; and that they are not in wrath, but in love: and this, with what follows, may respect the sufferings of the saints under Rome, Pagan and Papal; when Christ's feet, the members of his mystical body, were like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; when their graces were tried, their works were known, and their persons proved and approved, Revelation 1:15; see Zechariah 13:9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thou, O God, hast proved us - That is, Thou hast tried us; thou hast tested the reality of our attachment to thee, as silver is tried by the application of fire. God had proved or tried them by bringing calamity upon them to test the reality of their allegiance to him. The nature of the proof or trial is referred to in the following verses.
Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried - That is, by being subjected to appropriate tests to ascertain its real nature, and to remove from it imperfections. Compare the notes at 1 Peter 1:7; notes at Isaiah 1:25; notes at Isaiah 48:10; see also Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:3.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 66:10. For thou, O God, hast proved us — This is a metaphor taken from melting and refining metals; afflictions and trials of various kinds are represented as a furnace where ore is melted, and a crucible where it is refined. And this metaphor is used especially to represent cases where there is doubt concerning the purity of the metal, the quantity of alloy, or even the nature or kind of metal subjected to the trial. So God is said to try the Israelites that he might know what was in them; and whether they would keep his testimonies: and then, according to the issue, his conduct towards them would appear to be founded on reason and justice.
