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Isaiah 1:25

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1:25I will attack you;68

I will purify your metal with flux.69

I will remove all your slag.70

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Footnotes

  1. 68 Heb “turn my hand against you.” The second person pronouns in vv. 25–26 are feminine singular. Personified Jerusalem is addressed. The idiom “turn the hand against” has the nuance of “strike with the hand, attack,” in Ps 81:15 (81:14 ); Ezek 38:12; Am 1:8; Zech 13:7. In Jer 6:9 it is used of gleaning grapes.
  2. 69 Heb “I will purify your dross as [with] flux.” “Flux” refers here to minerals added to the metals in a furnace to prevent oxides from forming. For this interpretation of II בֹּר (bor), see II בֹּר and 750 סִיג.
  3. 70 The metaphor comes from metallurgy; slag is the substance left over after the metallic ore has been refined.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I will turn my hand against you

and will smelt away your dross as with lye

and remove all your alloy.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I will turn my hand against you;

I will thoroughly purge away your dross

and remove all your impurities.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will turn my hand against you

and will burn away your dross completely;

I will remove all your impurities.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will raise my fist against you.

I will melt you down and skim off your slag.

I will remove all your impurities.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And I will turn my hand against you;

I will purify your dross like lye,

and I will remove all of your tin.

KJV 1900King James Version

And I will turn my hand upon thee,

And purely purge away thy dross,

And take away all thy tin: