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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Bel kneels down, Nebo bends low. Their images weigh down animals and beasts. Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared! |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Those 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. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Remember this, so you can be brave! Think about it, you rebels! |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me, |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says, 'My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,' |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Listen to me, you stubborn people, you who distance yourself from doing what is right. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away; I am bringing my salvation near, it does not wait. I will save Zion; I will adorn Israel with my splendor." |
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