Isaiah 46:1–9

Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.

²They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.

³Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

⁴Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.

⁵To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?

⁶You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.

⁷They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his place, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.

⁸Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.

⁹Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: