Isaiah 46
1BEL is fallen; Nabo is broken to pieces, Their graven images were a load for wild beasts and cattle. You are carrying them bound like a burden on the weary, fainty, and hungry,
2who are all without strength and unable to escape from battle; and as for them, they are carried away captives!
3Hearken to me O house of Jacob and all ye remnant of Israel, who have been carried from the womb, and instructed from childhood to old age.
4I am the Self-Existent. Even till you grow old, I am, I sustain you: I made you and I will bear with you; I will lift you up and I will save you.
5To what have you likened Me? Look! Contrive, ye wanderers!
6Collecting gold from a bag, and silver by weight they will put it in a balance; and having hired a goldsmith they made handiworks and bowing themselves down they will worship them.
7They carry it on the shoulder and move on; but if they set it in its place, there it remaineth. It cannot move itself. And if any one cry to it, it cannot hear, nor can it save him from evils.
8Remember these things and groan; reform, ye who have been led astray: return with the heart
9and remember the things of old, that I am God and there is none besides Me,
10Who can declare events before they happen, as if they were already accomplished. When I have spoken, all My counsel shall stand; and all that I have determined, I will effect.
11Calling from the east a winged fowl, even from a far distant land, for purposes which I have resolved on, I have spoken and brought, I have created and made, I have brought it and made its way prosperous.
12Hear me, ye who have lost understanding—who are far from righteousness!
13I have brought My righteousness near; and the salvation which is from Me I will not delay. I have placed in Sion salvation for Israel, for a subject of glory.