Moth, rust, and decay imagery uses slow destruction, corrosion, rotting, and moth-eaten garments to describe frailty, fading glory, perishable wealth, and the instability of earthly security.
Moth, rust, and decay imagery uses slow destruction, corrosion, rotting, and moth-eaten garments to describe frailty, fading glory, perishable wealth, and the instability of earthly security.
A perishability motif in which insects, corrosion, rot, or decay represent the transience of human strength, wealth, beauty, judgment, and all creaturely glory apart from God.
These examples show how Moth, Rust, and Decay Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
crushed before the moth
Moth imagery emphasizes human frailty before God.
as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten
Rot and moth-eaten garment imagery express the wasting condition of human life.
thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth
Moth imagery describes the fading of human beauty under divine rebuke.
the moth shall eat them up
Moth imagery pictures the quiet certainty of judgment against opponents.
the moth shall eat them up like a garment
Moth and worm imagery contrasts perishing enemies with God’s enduring salvation.
I will be unto Ephraim as a moth
The LORD’s judgment is pictured as slow, inward decay upon an unfaithful people.
where moth and rust doth corrupt
Moth and rust imagery warns against storing ultimate treasure in perishable earthly goods.
treasure in the heavens that faileth not
The imagery contrasts imperishable heavenly treasure with earthly loss and decay.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten
Decay and corrosion imagery indict hoarded wealth under coming judgment.
an inheritance incorruptible... that fadeth not away
The promised inheritance is described by negating the decay that characterizes earthly goods.
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