Isaiah 46:1-7 ▼

1 Bel bows down, Nebo is stooping low; their idols are on the beasts and on the cattle, these carried by you? were heavy laden a burden to the weary.

2 They stoop low, they bend down together; they could not deliver the burden, and their souls have gone into captivity.

3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, those having been upheld from birth, having been carried from the womb:

4 Even to your old age, I am He; and until gray hair, I will will bear you up; I have done it—and I will lift, and I will bear and will deliver you.

5 To whom will you? liken Me and make Me equal and compare Me, that we should be alike?

6 Those lavishing gold from the bag and weighing silver on the scales, they hire a goldsmith, that he might make it a god. They bow low, even bow down;

7 they bear it on a shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands—from its place it will not move; though one may cry out to it, and it will not answer; from his distress it will not save him.