Common misinterpretations of Isaiah 2:20 include taking it literally as a prediction that people will feed physical idols to moles and bats or destroy valuables indiscriminately, ignoring its prophetic symbolism of rejecting false gods amid divine judgment; others divorce it from its context of God's humbling of the proud, misapplying it to justify modern iconoclasm, condemn contemporary materialism without addressing heart idolatry, or promote prosperity teachings by overlooking the passage's warning against trusting in wealth over God.
Isaiah 2:20
King James Version (1769)
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 2:20 portrays the transformative terror of the Day of the Lord, when humanity, confronted by God's majestic judgment against human pride and idolatry, will desperately abandon their most cherished man-made idols of silver and gold—symbols of self-worship and false security—flinging them into the dark, unclean holes of moles and bats, signifying complete repudiation and the futility of anything rivaling the sovereign Creator.