Isaiah 30:22

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁸Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him. ¹⁹O people in Zion, who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you. ²⁰The 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. ²¹And 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." ²²So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying, "Be gone!"²³Then 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. ²⁴The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder that has been winnowed with the shovel and pitchfork. ²⁵And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall. ²⁶The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter-like the light of seven days-on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He inflicted.

Bible Verse Review
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defile: Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 2:21, Isaiah 17:7, Isaiah 17:8, Isaiah 27:9, Isaiah 31:7, 2 Kings 23:4-20, 2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 34:3-7, Ezekiel 36:31, Micah 5:10-14, Zechariah 13:2, Revelation 19:20

thy graven images of silver: Heb. the graven images of thy silver, Isaiah 46:6, Exodus 32:2-4, Judges 17:3, Judges 17:4

cast: Heb. scatter

as a: Lamentations 1:17, Ezekiel 18:6

Get: Hosea 14:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:4 - hid them Leviticus 13:52 - burn Deuteronomy 7:25 - graven Deuteronomy 7:26 - but thou shalt Deuteronomy 9:21 - I took Isaiah 1:29 - ashamed Ezekiel 7:19 - shall cast Ezekiel 11:18 - General Ezekiel 14:6 - turn Ezekiel 18:31 - Cast Daniel 3:1 - made Hosea 6:1 - he hath torn Matthew 18:8 - and cast Acts 19:19 - and burned Romans 13:12 - cast James 1:21 - lay 1 Peter 2:1 - laying

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Genesis 25:21
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. "Give me children, or I will die!" she said to Jacob.

Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?"

Genesis 30:19
Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

Genesis 30:20
"God has given me a good gift," she said. "This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." And she named him Zebulun.

Psalms 105:42
For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

Psalms 127:3
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 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:

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, c. 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, 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye shall defile also - That is, you shall regard them as polluted and abominable. This is language which is often used respecting their treatment of the images and altars of idolatry when they became objects of abomination, and when they were induced to abandon them (see 2 Kings 23:8, 2 Kings 23:10, 2 Kings 23:16). It is not improbable that before destroying them they would express their abhorrence of them by some act of polluting or defiling them, as significant of their contempt for the objects of degraded idolatry (see the note at Isaiah 2:20). The sense of the whole passage is, that the effect of the judgments which God was about to bring upon the nation would be, to turn them from idolatry, to which as a nation they had been signally prone.

The covering - The images of idols were usually made of wood or clay, and overlaid with gold. That gold and silver were used “to plate” them is apparent from Deuteronomy 7:25; and the whole process of making them from wood, and then of overlaying them with plates of gold and silver is described with graphic power and severity of irony in Isaiah 40:19-20; Isaiah 41:6-7.

Thy graven images of silver - Margin, ‘The graven images of thy silver.’ Probably the construction in the text is correct, as meaning that the images were not made of entire silver, but of wood or clay, plated with silver.

And the ornament - The golden plates or the covering of the images.

Thy molten images - The word ‘molten’ refers to those which were made by “casting” (see the notes at Isaiah 40:19-20).

Thou shalt cast them away - (see the note at Isaiah 2:20). This would be in accordance with the express direction of Moses; Deuteronomy 7:25 : ‘The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein, for it is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.’

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 30:22. Ye shall defile - "Ye shall treat as defiled"] The very prohibition of Moses, Deuteronomy 7:25, only thrown out of the prose into the poetical form: "The graven images of their gods ye shall burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or the gold that is on them; nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to JEHOVAH thy God."