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22 And you will defile the plating of your silver idols
    and the covering of your gold image.
You will scatter them like contaminated things;[a]
    you will say to it, “Filth!”[b]
23 And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground,
    and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fertile.[c]
On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures;[d]
24     and the oxen and the donkeys that till[e] the ground will eat fodder, sorrel
        that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:22 Hebrew “contaminated thing”
  2. Isaiah 30:22 Or “Get out!”
  3. Isaiah 30:23 Literally “fat”
  4. Isaiah 30:23 Hebrew “pasture”
  5. Isaiah 30:24 Or “tilling”

22 Then you will desecrate your idols(A) overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold;(B) you will throw them away like a menstrual(C) cloth and say to them, “Away with you!(D)

23 He will also send you rain(E) for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich(F) and plentiful.(G) In that day(H) your cattle will graze in broad meadows.(I) 24 The oxen(J) and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder(K) and mash, spread out with fork(L) and shovel.

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