Isaiah 46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Isaiah 46

¹ Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and cattle; these things you carry are loaded as burdens on weary animals.

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

³ Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb;

⁴ even to your old age I am he; even when you turn gray I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

⁵ To whom will you liken me and make me equal and compare me, as though we were alike?

⁶ Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the scales— they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!

⁷ They lift it to their shoulders; they carry it; they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries out to it, it does not answer or save anyone from trouble.

⁸ Remember this and consider; recall it to mind, you transgressors;

⁹ remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me,

¹⁰ declaring the outcome from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”

¹¹ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man for my purpose from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have planned, and I will do it.

¹² Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

¹³ I bring near my deliverance; it is not far off, and my salvation will not tarry; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.