Isaiah 48:10
Douay-Rheims
Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.
Ibn Ezra
I have refined thee, by the exile. במצרף כסף=בכסף In the silver refinery, I have refined thee, by taking away the dross, that is, the wicked. בחרתיך I have chosen for thee, Some say that בחנתיך=בחרתיך I have tried thee; in that sense the word is hap. leg. I take it in its usual meaning, I have chosen for thee to refine thee in the furnace of affliction, not in the silver refinery.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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