Isaiah 48:10

Yahweh Refines Stubborn Israel

⁹ For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. ¹⁰ Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory to another.

Furnace of Affliction

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, even from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Job 23:10

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 66:10

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

Proverbs 17:3

The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Ezekiel 22:18-22

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

1 Peter 1:7

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

1 Kings 8:51

For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

Isaiah 1:25-26

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Ezekiel 20:38

And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Zechariah 13:8-9

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Malachi 3:2-3

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

Hebrews 12:10-11

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you:

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.