Isaiah 46:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² They stoop; they bow down together; they cannot save the burden but themselves go into captivity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² [The gods] stoop, they bow down together; they cannot save [their own idols], but are themselves going into captivity.

American Standard Version (1901)

² They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Common English Bible

² They crouch down and cower together. They aren’t able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go into captivity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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.

Isaiah 46:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 48:7

Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; Chemosh shall go out into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

2 Samuel 5:21

The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

Judges 18:24

He replied, “You take my gods that I made and the priest and go away, and what have I left? How then can you ask me, ‘What is the matter?’ ”

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come together; draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge— those who carry about their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 44:17

The rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, bows down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god!”

Isaiah 37:19

and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.

Isaiah 37:12

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my predecessors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

1 Samuel 5:3

When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.

Isaiah 30:6

An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and roaring lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people that cannot profit them.

Jeremiah 51:47

Assuredly, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.

Daniel 11:8

Even their gods, with their idols and with their precious vessels of silver and gold, he shall carry off to Egypt as spoils of war. For some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north;

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has commanded concerning you: Your name shall be perpetuated no longer; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.