Isaiah 46:1-7 ▼

1 Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and at the same time helpless man;

2 who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led away captive.

3 Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, and taught by me from infancy, even to old age:

4 I am he ; and until ye shall have grown old, I am he : I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

5 To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.

6 They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.

7 They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.