Isaiah 46 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

There Is No One Like God

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.

² The gods cower; they crouch together; they are not able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go into captivity.

³ ‘Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

⁴ I will be the same until your old age, and I will bear you up when you turn grey. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will bear and rescue you.

⁵ ‘To whom will you compare me or make me equal? Whom will you measure me with, so that we should be like each other?

⁶ Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales – they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.

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.

⁸ ‘Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!

⁹ Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like me.

¹⁰ I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.

¹¹ I call a bird of prey  from the east, a man for my purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it.

¹² Listen to me, you hard-hearted, far removed from justice:

¹³ I am bringing my justice near; it is not far away, and my salvation will not delay. I will put salvation in Zion, my splendour in Israel.