1Bel is bowed down: Nebo is fallen: their idols were upon their beasts, and upon the cattle: they which did bear you, were laden with a weary burden.
2They are bowed down, and fallen together, for they could not rid them of the burden, and their soul is gone into captivity.
3Hear ye me, O house of Jacob, and all that remain of the house of Israel, which are born of me from the womb, and brought up of me from the birth.
4Therefore unto old age, I the same, even I will bear you until the hoary hairs: I have made you: I will also bear you, and I will carry you, and I will deliver you.
5To whom will ye make me like, or make me equal, or compare me that I should be like him?
6They draw gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bow down and worship it.
7They bear it upon the shoulders: they carry him and set him in his place: so doth he stand, and cannot remove from his place. Though one cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor deliver him out of his tribulation.
8Remember this, and be ashamed: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.
9Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none other God, and there is nothing like me,
10Which declare the last thing from the beginning, and from of old: the things that were not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do whatsoever I will.
11I call a bird from the East, and the man of my counsel from far: as I have spoken, so will I bring it to pass: I have purposed it, and I will do it.
12Hear me ye stubborn hearted, that are far from justice.
13I bring near my justice: it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: for I will give salvation in Zion, and my glory unto Israel.