| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | English Standard Version |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They stoop; they bow down together; they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from righteousness: |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.” |
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