# Isaiah 46 (New King James Version)
Dead Idols and the Living God

##### Chapter 46
###### 1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops;  
Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle.  
Your carriages _were_ heavily loaded,  
A burden to the weary _beast._  

###### 2 They stoop, they bow down together;  
They could not deliver the burden,  
But have themselves gone into captivity.

###### 3 "Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,  
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,  
Who have been upheld _by Me_ from birth,  
Who have been carried from the womb:  

###### 4 Even to _your_ old age, I _am_ He,  
And _even_ to gray hairs I will carry _you!_  
I have made, and I will bear;  
Even I will carry, and will deliver _you._

###### 5 "To whom will you liken Me, and make _Me_ equal  
And compare Me, that we should be alike?  

###### 6 They lavish gold out of the bag,  
And weigh silver on the scales;  
They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god;  
They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.  

###### 7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it  
And set it in its place, and it stands;  
From its place it shall not move.  
Though _one_ cries out to it, yet it cannot answer  
Nor save him out of his trouble.

###### 8 "Remember this, and show yourselves men;  
Recall to mind, O you transgressors.  

###### 9 Remember the former things of old,  
For I _am_ God, and _there is_ no other;  
_I am_ God, and _there is_ none like Me,  

###### 10 Declaring the end from the beginning,  
And from ancient times _things_ that are not _yet_ done,  
Saying, 'My counsel shall stand,  
And I will do all My pleasure,'  

###### 11 Calling a bird of prey from the east,  
The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.  
Indeed I have spoken _it;_  
I will also bring it to pass.  
I have purposed _it;_  
I will also do it.

###### 12 "Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted,  
Who _are_ far from righteousness:  

###### 13 I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off;  
My salvation shall not linger.  
And I will place salvation in Zion,  
For Israel My glory.