Text -- Isaiah 48:10 (NET)

48:10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 48:10

¹ tc The Hebrew text has בְּחַרְתִּיךָ (bÿkhartikha, “I have chosen you”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly בחנתיכה (“I have tested you”). The metallurgical background of the imagery suggests that purification through testing is the idea.