Isaiah 31:7

31:7 For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.

Isaiah 40:19

40:19 A craftsman casts an idol;

a metalsmith overlays it with gold

and forges silver chains for it.


tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

tn Heb “reject” (so NIV); NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT “throw away.”

tn Heb “the idols of their idols of silver and their idols of gold which your hands made for yourselves [in] sin.” חָטָא (khata’, “sin”) is understood as an adverbial accusative of manner. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:573, n. 4.

tn Heb “pours out”; KJV “melteth.”