Isaiah 31:7

For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — God addresses rebellious Israel, announcing a decisive future moment called "that day" when national repentance will occur. The prophecy frames this turn away from idolatry as the immediate prerequisite to impending judgment.

The words — The Hebrew verb יִמְאָסוּ (yim'a.Su) literally means "they will reject" or "despise," paired with אֱלִילֵי כַסְפּוֹ (e.li.Lei khas.po), meaning "idols of his silver." These terms emphasize a complete, active abandonment of manufactured divine substitutes.

The thread — This motif of discarding silver and gold idols recurs in Isaiah 2:20 and Isaiah 30:22, where the people are commanded to cast them away as defiled waste. Ezekiel 36:25 follows the same pattern by linking the removal of idolatry with God's act of sprinkling clean water for spiritual cleansing.

Why it lands — The verse demands the explicit renunciation of self-made substitutes for God, treating them as worthless rather than sacred. Readers must recognize that true return to God requires dismantling human-crafted objects of trust before divine intervention can proceed.

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The Hebrew words

כִּ֚יkifor בַּיּ֣וֹםba/i.Yomin the/ day הַה֔וּאha./Hu'<the>/ that יִמְאָס֗וּןyim.'a.Su/nthey will reject/ !אִ֚ישׁ'isheveryone אֱלִילֵ֣י'e.li.Lei[the] idols of כַסְפּ֔וֹkhas.P/osilver/ his וֶאֱלִילֵ֖יve./'e.li.Leiand/ [the] idols of זְהָב֑וֹze.ha.V/ogold/ his אֲשֶׁ֨ר'a.Sherwhich עָשׂ֥וּ'a.Suthey have madeלָכֶ֛םla./Khemfor/ youיְדֵיכֶ֖םye.dei./Khemhands/ your חֵֽטְא׃Chet'sin

King James Version

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Cross-references

Isaiah 30:22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
Isaiah 2:20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
Deuteronomy 7:25 You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Hosea 14:8 O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
1 Kings 12:28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
Hosea 8:11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.