Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
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Context
8 yes, you heardest not; yes, you knewest not; yes, from that time your ear was not opened: for I knew that you wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I cut you not off.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do : for how should be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I he; I the first, I also the last.