7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, I will jrefine them and test them,
for what else can I do, because of my people?
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Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows blow fiercely;
the lead is consumed by the fire;
in vain the refining goes on,
for the wicked are not removed.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call upon my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people’;
and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”
Malachi 3:2
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
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