ULT ISA Chapter 46

46 Bel bows down,

Nebo stoops;

their images you carried

become for animals and for beasts

a heavy burden to exhaustion.

2 Together they bend low, kneel down;

they are not able to rescue the load,

and their souls have gone into captivity.

3 “Listen to me, house of Jacob,

and all the remnant of the house of Israel,

heavy-laden from birth,

burdened from the womb.

4 And until old age I am he,

and until gray hair I carry you.

I made you and I shall bear you,

and I shall carry you and I shall rescue you.

5 “To whom will you liken me, that I am equal with,

and compare me, that I resemble?

6 They pour out gold from the bag

and silver on the scale weigh,

hire a goldsmith that he make it a god;

they worship it, even bow down.

7 They lift it on a shoulder and carry it,

and they set it in its place, and it stands in its spot, does not depart.

One may even cry out to it, but it does not answer

from his trouble it does not save him.

8 “Recall these and be firm;

rebels, take it to heart!

9 Recall the former things from ancient times,

for I am God, and there is no other;

God, and none is like me,

10 announcing from the beginning, the end,

and beforehand what has not happened,

saying, ‘My plan will happen,

and all my desire I shall do.’

11 Calling a hawk from the east,

from a distant land, the man of my counsel.

Yes, I have spoken; indeed, I shall accomplish it.

I have purposed; I shall also do it.

12 Listen to me, bull-hearted,

far from righteousness.

13 I am bringing my righteousness near; it is not far away,

and my salvation does not loiter;

and I shall give salvation to Zion

to Israel my splendor.