And they left their images there, and Dawiḏ and his men took them away.
Isaiah 46:2 - The Scriptures 2009 They have stooped, they have bowed down together, they were unable to deliver the burden, but they themselves went into captivity. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [The gods] stoop, they bow down together; they cannot save [their own idols], but are themselves going into captivity. American Standard Version (1901) They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. Common English Bible They crouch down and cower together. They aren’t able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go into captivity. Catholic Public Domain Version They have been melted down, or have been smashed together. They were not able to save the one who carried them, and their life will go into captivity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are consumed and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them; and they themselves shall go into captivity. |
And they left their images there, and Dawiḏ and his men took them away.
The message concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress, from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,
Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Ḥaran and Retseph, and the sons of Ěḏen who were in Telassar?
and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. And they destroyed them.
And the rest of it he makes into a mighty one, his carved image. He falls down before it and worships, prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my mighty one.”
“Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. No knowledge have they who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a mighty one that does not save.
“For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, you shall be captured. And Kemosh shall go forth into exile, his priests and his heads together.
therefore see, the days are coming that I shall bring punishment on the carved images of Baḇel, and all her land shall be put to shame, and all her slain fall in her midst.
and also their mighty ones, with their princes and their precious utensils of silver and gold he shall seize and bring to Mitsrayim. And he shall stand more years than the sovereign of the North.
And יהוה has commanded concerning you, “Your name shall no longer be sown. From the house of your mighty ones I shall cut off the carved image and the moulded image. I shall appoint your burial-site, for you have been of no account.”
And he said, “You have taken away my mighty ones which I made, and the priest, and you are leaving. Now what more do I have? What is this you say to me, ‘What is the matter?’ ”
And the Ashdoḏites rose early in the morning and saw Daḡon fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of יהוה. So they took Daḡon and put it in its place again.