Isaiah 30:22

You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will sh'ma ·hear obey· a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:52He shall burn the garment, whether the linnen or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive tzara'at mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.

Isaiah 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, 2 and their idols of gold, 2 which have been made for themselves to worship, 2 to the moles and to the bats; 2

Isaiah 27:9Therefore by this the depravity (moral evil) of Jacob [Supplanter] will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his habitual sin ·missing the mark·: + 27:9. Quoted in Rom 11:27 that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Isaiah 46:6Some pour out gold from the bag, 2 and weigh silver in the balance. 1 They hire a goldsmith, 2 and he makes it a deity. 1 They fall down— 2 yes, they worship. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:19-27

Promises. ( b. c. 720.) 18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not… Read the whole commentary →

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