rsv Isaiah:46:1-7
rsv@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are on beasts and cattle; these things you carry are loaded as burdens on weary beasts.
rsv@Isaiah:46:2 @ They stoop, they bow down together, they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.
rsv@Isaiah:46:3 @ "Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb;
rsv@Isaiah:46:4 @ even to your old age I am He, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
rsv@Isaiah:46:5 @ "To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?
rsv@Isaiah:46:6 @ Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!
rsv@Isaiah:46:7 @ They lift it upon their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.