ULT ISA Chapter 46

46 Bel bows down,

Nebo is stooping;

their images have become for the animal and for the beast;

your carried things are loaded, a burden to the weary.

2 They stooped, they bowed down together;

they were not able to rescue the burden,

and their soul has gone into captivity.

3 “Listen to me, house of Jacob,

and all of the remnant of the house of Israel,

the ones loaded from the belly,

the ones carried from the womb.

4 For until old age I am he,

and until gray hair I, I will bear you.

I, I made you, and I, I will carry you.

Indeed, I, I will bear you, and I will rescue you.

5 “To whom will you liken me, that you should equate me,

and will you compare me, that we should resemble?

6 The ones dumping gold from a bag,

and they weigh silver on a scale;

they hire a metalworker, and they make it a god;

they bow down, indeed, they prostrate themselves.

7 They lift it onto a shoulder, they bear it,

and they put it under itself, and it stands;

it does not depart from its place.

Indeed, one cries out to it, but it does not answer;

it does not save him from his trouble.

8 “Remember this and establish yourselves;

return it, rebelling ones, to the heart!

9 Remember the former from eternity,

for I am God, and there is no other;

God, and none is like me,

10 declaring the end from the beginning,

and from before, what have not been done,

saying, ‘My counsel will stand,

and all of my desire, I will do,’

11 calling from the rising of the sun a bird of prey,

from a land of distance, the man of my counsel.

Indeed, I have spoken; indeed, I will make it come.

I have formed it; indeed, I will do it.

12 “Listen to me, strong of heart,

ones far from righteousness!

13 I am bringing near my righteousness;

it will not be far,

and my salvation will not linger.

And I will give salvation in Zion,

my splendor to Israel.”