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22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols[a]
and your gold-plated images.[b]
You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag,
saying to them, “Get out!”
23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground,
and the ground will produce crops in abundance.[c]
At that time[d] your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing[e]
will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:22 tn Heb “the platings of your silver idols.”
  2. Isaiah 30:22 tn Heb “the covering of your gold image.”
  3. Isaiah 30:23 tn Heb “and he will give rain for your seed that you plant in the ground, and food [will be] the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and abundant.”
  4. Isaiah 30:23 tn Or “in that day” (KJV).
  5. Isaiah 30:24 tn Heb “the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground.”
  6. Isaiah 30:24 sn Crops will be so abundant that even the work animals will eat well.