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Isaiah 30:22 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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!” "
Isaiah 30:22
Verse in Context
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20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
22 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!”
23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
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Isaiah 30:1
"“Woe to the rebellious children”, says the LORD, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;"
Isaiah 30:2
"who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!"
Isaiah 30:3
"Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion."
Isaiah 30:4
"For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes."
Isaiah 30:5
"They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”"
Isaiah 30:6
"The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people."
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