Isaiah 30:22

Sin Purity

²⁰ The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

²¹ And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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!”

²³ Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

²⁴ The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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!”
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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!”
ASV: And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
DARBY: And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it.
BLB: 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.

ÅB: Og du skal akte for urene sølvplatene på dine utskårne bilder og gullplatene på ditt støpte bilde; du skal kaste det bort som skitne kluter; ut med deg! skal du si til det.
OTB: Da skal dere vanhellige deres avguder overtrukket med sølv og deres bilder dekket med gull; dere skal kaste dem bort som en uren ting og si til dem, "Bort med dere!"
B1930: Og du skal akte for urene sølvplatene på dine utskårne billeder og gullplatene på ditt støpte billede; du skal kaste det bort som skitne kluter; ut med dig! skal du si til det.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Ezekiel 36:31
Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
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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.
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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.”
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Isaiah 17:7–8
In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
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