Isaiah 46 Holman Christian Standard Bible

There is No One Like God

46 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.^(A)
Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are loaded,
as a burden for the weary animal.
²The gods cower; they crouch together;
they are not able to rescue the burden,
but they themselves go into captivity.^(B)

³“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.
⁴I will be the same until your old age,^(C)
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.

⁵“Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to?
Who will you measure Me with,
so that we should be like each other?^(D)
⁶Those 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.^(E)
⁷They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along;^(F)
they set it in its place, and there it stands;
it does not budge from its place.^(G)
They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;
it saves no one from his trouble.

⁸“Remember this and be brave;^[a]
take it to heart, you transgressors!
⁹Remember what happened long ago,^(H)
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and no one is like Me.
¹⁰I 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.^(I)
¹¹I call a bird of prey^[b] from the east,^(J)
a man for My purpose from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.^(K)
I have planned it; I will also do it.
¹²Listen to me, you hardhearted,
far removed from justice:
¹³I am bringing My justice near;^(L)
it is not far away,
and My salvation will not delay.
I will put salvation in Zion,
My splendor in Israel.