Isaiah 30:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְטִמֵּאתֶם אֶת־צִפּוּי פְּסִילֵי כַסְפֶּךָ וְאֶת־אֲפֻדַּת מַסֵּכַת זְהָבֶךָ תִּזְרֵם כְּמוֹ דָוָה צֵא תֹּאמַר לוֹ׃

Transliteration

And you shall ṭimmēʾtem ʾet [the] ṣippûy of your pesîlê of kaspekā and ʾet [the] ʾăpuddat of [the] massēḵat of your zehābeḵā. You shall tizrēm like a dāwâ; "ṣēʾ," you shall tōʾmar to it.

Grammar Details

• *ṭimmēʾtem*: piel perfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will defile
• *ṣippûy*: masculine singular construct - overlay/plating of
• *pesîlê*: masculine plural construct - carved images of
• *kaspekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your silver
• *ʾăpuddat*: feminine singular construct - covering of
• *massēḵat*: feminine singular construct - molten image of
• *zehābeḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your gold
• *tizrēm*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - you will scatter them
• *dāwâ*: feminine singular noun - menstruous woman
• *ṣēʾ*: qal imperative masculine singular - go out
• *tōʾmar*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will say

Word Meanings

• *ṭimmēʾtem*: you will defile/make unclean/treat as unclean
• *ṣippûy*: overlay/plating/covering of
• *pesîlê*: carved images/idols of
• *kaspekā*: your silver/money
• *ʾăpuddat*: covering/wrapping/ephod of
• *massēḵat*: molten image/cast idol of
• *zehābeḵā*: your gold
• *tizrēm*: you will scatter them/disperse them/throw them away
• *dāwâ*: menstruous woman/impure thing
• *ṣēʾ*: go out/get out/depart
• *tōʾmar*: you will say/tell/command

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then you will defile 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!'

• King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And ye shall defile{H2930} the overlaying{H6826} of thy graven images{H6456} of silver,{H3701} and the plating{H642} of thy molten images{H4541} of gold:{H2091} thou shalt cast them away{H2219} as an unclean thing;{H1739} thou shalt say{H559} unto it, Get thee hence.{H3318}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Ye shall defile{H2930}{(H8765)} also the covering{H6826} of thy graven images{H6456} of silver{H3701}, and the ornament{H642} of thy molten images{H4541} of gold{H2091}: thou shalt cast them away{H2219}{(H8799)} as a menstruous cloth{H1739}; thou shalt say{H559}{(H8799)} unto it, Get thee hence{H3318}{(H8798)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Morouer yf ye destroye the syluer workes of youre Idols, and cast awaye the golden coapes that ye deckt them withall (as fylthynes) and saie, get you hence:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And ye shall pollute the couering of the images of siluer, and the riche ornament of thine images of golde, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and thou shalt say vnto it, Get thee hence.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Ye shall destroy also the couering of your siluer images, and the decking of your golden idols, euen as filthynesse shalt thou put them away: And thou shalt say vnto it, Get thee hence.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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, Get you hence.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,' thou sayest to it.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

• World English Bible (2000)

  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!"

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”

Referenced Verses

• Judg 17:3-4 : 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you. 4 Yet he restored the money to his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a carved image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
• Isa 46:6 : 6 They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.
• Hos 14:8 : 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green cypress tree. From me your fruit is found.
• Isa 31:7 : 7 For in that day every man will cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made for you as a sin.
• Exod 32:2-4 : 2 Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
• Mic 5:10-14 : 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and I will destroy your chariots. 11 And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds. 12 And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers. 13 Your carved images also will I cut off, and your sacred pillars from the midst of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands. 14 And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.
• Zech 13:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and also, I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked miracles before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with sulfur.
• Lam 1:17 : 17 Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be all around him: Jerusalem is like a menstruous woman among them.
• Ezek 18:6 : 6 And has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiled his neighbor's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman,
• Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• 2 Kgs 23:4-9 : 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 And he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas around Jerusalem, those also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people. 7 And he broke down the houses of the prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren. 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech. 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the officer, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. 13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled. 14 And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15 Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah. 16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain, and sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 17 Then he said, What monument is this that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel. 18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they left his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
• 2 Chr 34:3-7 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
• Isa 2:20-21 : 20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the rugged rocks, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.
• Isa 17:7-8 : 7 On that day a man shall look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect for the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.
• Isa 27:9 : 9 By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up.