Isaiah 48:9-10

For my name's sake.— For my name's sake will I moderate my anger, and for my praise I will refrain towards thee, &c. Isaiah 48:10. Behold, &c. I have proved, or had pity on thee in the furnace of affliction. Silver is of the most difficult refinement, and requires a hotter and clearer fire than gold and other metals. The meaning therefore of the phrase, I have refined thee, but not with silver, is, that though God had punished his people in the Babylonish captivity, he had not done so with the utmost severity: In the midst of judgment he had remembered mercy.