Isaiah 46

Isaiah 46, verse 1. ¹Bel bowed down; Dagon is crushed; their carved stones are for the wild animals and cattle. Take them bound as a burden to the weary, Isaiah 46, verse 2. ²to the hungry, the exhausted and those who have no strength together, who shall not be able to save themselves from war, but who themselves are led away as captives. Isaiah 46, verse 3. ³“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob and all the remnant of Israel, both those taken from the womb and those instructed from childhood, Isaiah 46, verse 4. ⁴even to your old age: I Am, and even to your gray hairs, I Am. I bear you; I made you and will forgive you. I will take you up and save you. Isaiah 46, verse 5. ⁵To whom will you liken Me? Look what you contrived, you who went astray. Isaiah 46, verse 6. ⁶Those who contribute gold from a purse and silver on a scale, and count them out by weight, and who hire a goldsmith, they make things with their hands, and bowing down, they worship them. Isaiah 46, verse 7. ⁷They bear it on their shoulders and go; and if they set it somewhere, it remains there and never moves. Though one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him from his troubles. Isaiah 46, verse 8. ⁸Remember these things and groan. Repent, you who go astray; return in your heart. Isaiah 46, verse 9. ⁹Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other besides Me, Isaiah 46, verse 10. ¹⁰declaring beforehand the latter events before they come to pass and are accomplished together. I say, ‘All My counsel shall stand, and I will do whatever I will to do, Isaiah 46, verse 11. ¹¹calling a bird from the east and from a land afar off.’ For what I purpose to do, I speak and bring it about, and create and do it. Thus I brought him and proposed his way. Isaiah 46, verse 12. ¹²Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted who are far from righteousness. Isaiah 46, verse 13. ¹³I bring My righteousness near, and My salvation shall not delay. I give salvation in Zion and to Israel for glory.