Isaiah 46

1Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beastsand the cattle: you⌃ take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, andat the same time helpless man; 2who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are ledaway captive. 3Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borneby me from the womb, and taughtby me from infancy,even to old age: 4I amhe; and until you⌃ shall have grown old, I amhe: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you. 5To whom have you⌃ compared me? see, consider, you⌃ that go astray. 6They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale,and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them. 7They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains,it can’t move: and whoever shall cry to it, it can’t hear; it can’t save him from trouble. 8Remember you⌃ these things, and groan: repent, you⌃ that have gone astray, return in yourheart; 9and remember the former thingsthat were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me, 10telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplishedtogether: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned: 11calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned:I have spoken, and broughthim; I have created and madehim; I have brought him, and prospered his way. 12Hearken to me, you⌃ senseless ones, that are far from righteousness: 13I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation thatis from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.

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