Isaiah 46

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.

8 Remember this and be men; take [it] back, O transgressors, to heart!

9 Remember the former [things] of old: For I [am] God, and there is no other; [I am] God, and none [is] like Me—

10 declaring from the beginning the end, and from of old that which has not been done, saying, ‘My counsel will stand, and I will do all My delight;’

11 the One calling from the east a bird of prey, the man of My counsel from a country far away—indeed, I have spoken [it] [and] so I will bring it to pass; I have fashioned [it], I will also do it.

12 Listen to Me, O obstinate of heart, far from righteousness!

13 I have brought near My righteousness; it is not far off; and My salvation—it will not be delayed; and I have given to Zion salvation, to Israel My splendor.