Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.
New American Standard Bible
You have
King James Version
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Holman Bible
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.
Amplified
For You have tested us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.
Bible in Basic English
For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.
Darby Translation
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
King James 2000
For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.
Modern King James verseion
For You have proved us, O God; You have tested us, as silver is refined.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried.
NET Bible
For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.
New Heart English Bible
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
The Emphasized Bible
For thou didst prove us, O God, Thou didst refine us, according to the refining of silver:
Webster
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
World English Bible
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.
Themes
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Refining influence of
Afflictions made beneficial » In testing and exhibiting our sincerity
spiritual Refining » The refining influence afflictions
Silver » Illustrative » Of saints purified by affliction
Spiritual » Refining » The refining influence of afflictions
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 66:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For God's Mighty Acts
9 who holds our soul in life, and does not allow our feet to be moved. 10 For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried. 11 Thou brought us into the net. Thou laid a great burden upon our loins.
Cross References
Psalm 17:3
Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part into 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, LORD i
1 Peter 1:6-7
In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.
Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers did not know, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end.
Deuteronomy 13:3
thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.