# Isaiah 46 
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1. Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts. 
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2. They stoop; they bow down together; they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity. 
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3. “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; 
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4. even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save. 
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5. “To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike? 
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6. Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship! 
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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 to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble. 
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8. “Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, 
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9. remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, 
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10. declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ 
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11. calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it. 
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12. “Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from righteousness: 
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13. I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.” 

(ESV)