Once like sterling silver; now mixed with worthless alloy! Once so pure, but now diluted like watered-down wine!

Israel has vast treasures of silver and gold, and great numbers of horses and chariots

Then at last they will abandon their gold and silver idols to the moles and bats

For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off.

And you will destroy all your silver idols and gold images and cast them out like filthy things you hate to touch. “Ugh!” you’ll say to them. “Be gone!”

I know the glorious day will come when every one of you will throw away his gold idols and silver images—which in your sinfulness you have made.

Hezekiah appreciated this and took the envoys from Babylon on a tour of the palace, showing them his treasure-house full of silver, gold, spices, and perfumes. He took them into his jewel rooms, too, and opened to them all his treasures—everything.

With an idol? An idol made from a mold, overlaid with gold, and with silver chains around its neck?

Will you compare me with an idol made lavishly with silver and with gold? They hire a goldsmith to take your wealth and make a god from it! Then they fall down and worship it!

I refined you in the furnace of affliction, but found no silver there. You are worthless, with nothing good in you at all.

I will exchange your brass for gold, your iron for silver, your wood for brass, your stones for iron. Peace and righteousness shall be your taskmasters!