Isaiah 30:22

Translations

Modern

So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

Traditional

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

Literal

And you will defile the overlaid idols of your silver, and the plating of the molten images of your gold; you will throw them away like menstrual cloths—“Filth!”” You will say to it.

Latin

Et contaminabis laminas sculptilium argenti tui, et vestimentum conflatilis auri tui, et disperges ea sicut immunditiam menstruatæ. Egredere, dices ei.

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English

So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

Notes

Isaiah 30:22

One aspect of Hezekiah’s reforms was to remove silver idols and other idolatry of Ahaz’s era and to call the people back to the worship of the God of Israel (2 Kings 18:4–5; 2 Chronicles 29).

Isaiah 30:18–33

This prophecy of salvation gave promises of hope. It helped Israel look away from their present suffering.

Instead, it pointed them toward the glorious future that God had prepared for his people.

Isaiah 30:1–33

After warning Judah of judgment due to their stubbornness and reliance on Egypt (Isaiah 30:1–17), God promised to show compassion to his people and defeat their enemies.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Faithfulness to His People Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 31:7
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
Judges 17:3–4
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
Isaiah 46:6
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
Zechariah 13:2
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
Ezekiel 36:31
Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
Exodus 32:2–4
So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
Hosea 14:8
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
Isaiah 17:7–8
In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 2:20–21
In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
Micah 5:10–14
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
2 Kings 23:4–20
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
2 Chronicles 34:3–7
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

Glossary

Cleanness and Uncleanness, Regulations Concerning Isaiah, Book of Minerals and Metals

Topics

Idol: Coverings of Idol: Made of Gold Idol: Made of Silver Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of Idols Isaiah: Prophecies, Reproofs Menstruation: Figurative Menstruation: Uncleanness of Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Blessing and Restoration Silver: Idols Silver: Made Into: Idols

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