1Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
            Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
            The things that you carry are burdensome,
            A load for the weary beast.

     2They stooped over, they have bowed down together;
            They could not rescue 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,
            You who have been borne by Me from birth,
            And have been carried from the womb;

     4Even to your old age, I shall be the same,
            And even to your graying years I shall bear you!
            I have done it, and I shall carry you;
            And I shall bear you, and I shall deliver you.

     5“To whom would you liken Me,
            And make Me equal and compare Me,
            That we should be alike?

     6“Those who lavish gold from the purse
            And weigh silver on the scale
            Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
            They bow down, indeed they worship it.

     7“They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it;
            They set it in its place and it stands there.
            It does not move from its place.
            Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer;
            It cannot deliver him from his distress.

     8“Remember this, and be assured;
            Recall it to mind, you transgressors.

     9“Remember the former things long past,
            For I am God, and there is no other;
            I am God, and there is no one like Me,

     10Declaring the end from the beginning
            And from ancient times things which have not been done,
            Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
            And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

     11Calling a bird of prey from the east,
            The man of My purpose from a far country.
            Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass.
            I have planned it, surely I will do it.

     12“Listen to Me, you stubborn-minded,
            Who are far from righteousness.

     13“I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off;
            And My salvation will not delay.
            And I will grant salvation in Zion,
            And My glory for Israel.