1.8 KiB
There Is No One Like God
Chapter 46
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Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle. The images you carry are loaded, as a burden for the weary animal.
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The gods cower; they crouch together; they are not able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go into captivity.
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"Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
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I will be the same until your old age, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will bear and rescue you.
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"To whom will you compare me or make me equal? Who will you measure me with, so that we should be like each other?
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Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales-- they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.
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They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn't answer; it saves no one from his trouble.
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"Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
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Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like me.
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I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.
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I call a bird of prey from the east, a man for my purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it.
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Listen to me, you hardhearted, far removed from justice:
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I am bringing my justice near; it is not far away, and my salvation will not delay. I will put salvation in Zion, my splendor in Israel.