Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.”

“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Their land is full of gold and silver; there is no end to their wealth. Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers.

Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them; they are not concerned about silver, nor are they interested in gold.

You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, “Get out!”

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

You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.

Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

Indeed, the coastlands look eagerly for me, the large ships are in the lead, bringing your sons from far away, along with their silver and gold, to honor the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has bestowed honor on you.

Instead of bronze, I will bring you gold, instead of iron, I will bring you silver, instead of wood, I will bring you bronze, instead of stones, I will bring you iron. I will make prosperity your overseer, and vindication your sovereign ruler.

Hezekiah welcomed them and showed them his storehouse with its silver, gold, spices, and high-quality olive oil, as well as his whole armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.