God, you have tested us. You put us through fire to make us like silver.

神啊，你曾试验我们，熬炼我们，如熬炼银子一样。

上帝啊，你曾考验我们，你熬炼我们，如炼银子一样。

神啊，你曾考验我们，你熬炼我们，如炼银子一样。

上帝啊，你试验我们，熬炼我们如熬炼银子。

神啊！你试炼了我们，熬炼了我们，如同熬炼银子一般。

是的，神哪，你察验了我们，你熬炼了我们，如同熬炼银子！

神啊，你曾試驗我們，熬煉我們，如熬煉銀子一樣。

上帝啊，你曾考驗我們，你熬煉我們，如煉銀子一樣。

神啊，你曾考驗我們，你熬煉我們，如煉銀子一樣。

上帝啊，你試驗我們，熬煉我們如熬煉銀子。

神啊！你試煉了我們，熬煉了我們，如同熬煉銀子一般。

因為上帝啊，你曾檢查我們，熬煉我們，如熬煉銀子一樣。

是的，神哪，你察驗了我們，你熬煉了我們，如同熬煉銀子！

上帝歟、爾曾試我、鍊我如鍊銀兮、

天主歟、曾試驗我儕、鍛鍊我儕、如鍊銀然、

賜我鍛鍊。如銀在鑪。

For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

You have tested us, O God; you have purified us like silver.

For you, God, tested us; you refined us as silver is refined.

For You have put us to the test, God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us as silver is refined.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

For You, God, tested us; You refined us as silver is refined.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Look deep down into my heart. Study me carefully at night and test me. You won’t find anything wrong. I have planned nothing evil. My mouth has not said sinful things.

I have tested you in the furnace of suffering. I have tried to make you pure. But I did not use as much heat as it takes to make silver pure.

Fire tests silver, and heat tests gold. But the Lord tests our hearts.

Because you know all this, you have great joy. You have joy even though you may have had to suffer for a little while. You may have had to suffer sadness in all kinds of trouble.Your troubles have come in order to prove that your faith is real. Your faith is worth more than gold. That’s because gold can pass away even when fire has made it pure. Your faith is meant to bring praise, honor and glory to God. This will happen when Jesus Christ returns.

I will put this third in the fire. I will make them as pure as silver. I will test them like gold. They will call out to me. And I will answer them. I will say,‘ They are my people.’ And they will say,‘ The Lord is our God.’ ”

So you must not listen to what that prophet or dreamer has said. The Lord your God is testing you. He wants to know whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.

But he knows every step I take. When he has tested me, I’ll come out as pure as gold.

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way. He guided you in the desert for these 40 years. He wanted to take your pride away. He wanted to test you to know what was in your hearts. He wanted to see whether you would obey his commands.

He gave you manna to eat in the desert. Your people had never even known anything about manna before. The Lord took your pride away. He tested you. He did it so that things would go well with you in the end.