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1 Bel bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary. 2 They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity. 3 Hear to me, ye house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, being carried from the belly, being lifted up from the womb: 4 find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I will deliver. 5 To whom will ye liken me and make equal? and compare me and we shall be like? 6 Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship. 7 They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits. Isaiah 46:1-7, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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