Isaiah 46:1–7

THERE IS NO ONE LIKE GOD

46Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.^m

Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle.

The images you carry are loaded,

as a burden for the weary animal.

²The gods cower; they crouch together;

they are not able to rescue the burden,

but they themselves go into captivity.ⁿ

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.

⁴I will be the same until your old age,^o

and I will bear you up when you turn gray.

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?

Who will you measure me with,

so that we should be like each other?^p

⁶Those 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.^q

⁷They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along;^r

they set it in its place, and there it stands;

it does not budge from its place.^s

They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;

it saves no one from his trouble.