Isaiah 46:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle. The images you carry are loaded, as a burden for the weary animal.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BEL BOWS down, Nebo stoops [gods of Babylon, whose idols are being carried off]; their idols are on the beasts [of burden] and on the cattle. These things that you carry about are loaded as burdens on the weary beasts.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

Common English Bible

¹ Bel crouches down; Nebo cowers. Their idols sit on animals, on beasts. The objects you once carried about are now borne as burdens by the weary animals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Bel has been broken. Nebo has been crushed. Their idols have been placed upon beasts and cattle, your grievous heavy burdens, even unto exhaustion.

Isaiah 46:1 Cross References

Job 39:11

Can you depend on it because its strength is great? Would you leave it to do your hard work?

Exodus 12:12

‘I will pass through  the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I am the Lord; I will execute judgements against all the gods of Egypt.

Isaiah 2:18

The worthless idols will vanish completely.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.

Isaiah 21:9

Look, riders come – horsemen in pairs.’ And he answered, saying, ‘Babylon has fallen,  has fallen. All the images of her gods have been shattered on the ground.’

Isaiah 30:6

A pronouncement  concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who will not help them.

Isaiah 45:20

‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:5

Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried  because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm   – and they cannot do any good.

Jeremiah 50:2

Announce to the nations; proclaim and raise up a signal flag; proclaim, and hide nothing. Say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel  is put to shame; Marduk is terrified.’ Her idols are put to shame; her false gods devastated.

Jeremiah 50:38

A drought will come on her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of carved images, and they go mad because of terrifying things.  ,

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel  in Babylon. I will make him vomit what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even Babylon’s wall will fall.

Jeremiah 51:47

Therefore, look, the days are coming when I will punish Babylon’s carved images. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.

Jeremiah 51:52

Therefore, look, the days are coming – this is the  Lord’s declaration – when I will punish her carved images, and the wounded will groan throughout her land.

Daniel 11:8

He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious articles of silver and gold.  For some years he will stay away from the king of the North,

Daniel 3:14

Nebuchadnezzar asked them, ‘Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you don’t serve my gods or worship the gold statue  I have set up?

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has issued an order concerning you: There will be no offspring to carry on your name.  , I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.

Numbers 32:38

as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry   and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.

1 Samuel 5:3

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord.  So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.