Isaiah 30:22

You will desecrate your carved figures overlaid with silver and your gold cast figures. 1 You will throw them away like a menstrual rag. You will say to them, “Get out of here.” 1

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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

21Your ears will hear a word behind you saying, 1 “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 1

23He will give the rain for your seed when you sow the ground, 1 and bread with abundance from the ground, and the crops will be abundant. 1 In that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:52He must burn the garment, or anything woven or knitted from wool or linen material, or leather or anything made with leather, anything in which the harmful mildew is found, for it can lead to disease. The item must be completely burned up.

Judges 17:3He restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother and his mother said, “I set apart this silver to Yahweh, for my son to make carved and cast metal figures. So now, I restore it to you.”

2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was finished, all the people of Israel who were there went out to the cities of Judah and broke to pieces the stone pillars and they cut down the Asherah poles, and they broke down the high places and the altars in all of Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned, every one to his own possession and his own city.

Isaiah 2:20On that day people will throw away their idols of silver and of gold 1 that they have made for themselves to worship—they will throw them away to the moles and bats. 1

Isaiah 27:9So in this way, the iniquity of Jacob will be atoned for, for this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: 1 when he will make all the altar stones as chalk and crushed to pieces, 1 and no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing. 1

Isaiah 46:6People pour out gold from the bag and weigh silver on the scale. 1 They hire a metalsmith, and he makes it into a god; they bow down and worship it. 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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