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Isaiah 30:22

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22 Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
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Isaiah 30:22 in Other Translations

KJV
22 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.
ESV
22 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!"
NLT
22 Then you will destroy all your silver idols and your precious gold images. You will throw them out like filthy rags, saying to them, “Good riddance!”
MSG
22 You'll scrap your expensive and fashionable god-images. You'll throw them in the trash as so much garbage, saying, "Good riddance!"
CSB
22 Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

Isaiah 30:22 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 30:22

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
silver
Images made of solid silver, covered with rich and costly garments; or images covered and decorated with plates of silver; see ( Jeremiah 10:4 Jeremiah 10:8 ) these they not only pulled down and defaced, but defiled, to show their contempt and abhorrence of them: and the ornament of thy molten images of gold;
images made of solid gold, covered with an ephod, as the word here used signifies; such an one as the high priest wore, and Micah made for his house of idolatry, ( Exodus 28:6 ) ( Judges 17:5 ) : thou shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth;
which is not only filthy and loathsome, but defiling; whoever touched it were unclean by the law for a while; or as a woman in her monthly courses, who, during that time, was to be separate from her husband, ( Leviticus 15:19 ) ; this is used to express the pollution and nauseousness of idols, and of the utter rejection of them: thou shall say unto it, Get thee hence;
Kimchi observes that some say the word signifies "dung; thou shall say to it, thou art dung", and only fit for the dunghill, and to it thou shall go; at the same time cast it out, declaring abhorrence of idols, repentance for worshipping them, and signifying that they would have nothing more to do with them. This shows the efficacy of the word of God when it comes not in word only, but with the power and Spirit of God; it was fulfilled in some measure in Hezekiah's time; see ( 2 Kings 18:4 ) ( 2 Chronicles 29:16 ) ( 31:1 ) , and after the Babylonish captivity, when the Jews left off idolatry, and never more returned to it; and when the Gospel prevailed in the Roman Pagan empire, and at the time of the Reformation, and will be more largely accomplished when Popery shall be utterly destroyed through the powerful ministration of the Gospel.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Isaiah 30:22 In-Context

20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
22 Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
23 He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.
24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.

Cross References 4

  • 1. S Exodus 32:4; S Isaiah 17:8
  • 2. S Job 22:24; Isaiah 31:7
  • 3. Leviticus 15:19-23
  • 4. Ezekiel 7:19-20
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