Yesaya 30:22

30:22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols ¹ 

and your gold-plated images. ² 

You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag,

saying to them, “Get out!”

Yesaya 29:16

29:16 Your thinking is perverse! ³ 

Should the potter be regarded as clay? ⁴ 

Should the thing made say ⁵  about its maker, “He didn’t make me”?

Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?

[30:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the platings of your silver idols.”

[30:22]  ² tn Heb “the covering of your gold image.”

[29:16]  ³ tn Heb “your overturning.” The predicate is suppressed in this exclamation. The idea is, “O your perversity! How great it is!” See GKC 470 §147.c. The people “overturn” all logic by thinking their authority supersedes God’s.

[29:16]  ⁴ tn The expected answer to this rhetorical question is “of course not.” On the interrogative use of אִם (’im), see BDB 50 s.v.

[29:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “that the thing made should say.”