1. Bel has fallen, Nebo is broken to pieces, their graven images have gone to the wild beasts and the cattle; you take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;

2. who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led [away] captive.

3. Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the womb, and taught [by Me] from infancy, [even] to old age;

4. I am [He]; and until you have grown old, I am [He]; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

5. To whom have you compared Me? See [and] consider, you that go astray.

6. They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.

7. They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

8. [Therefore r]emember these things, and groan; repent, you that have gone astray, return in your heart;

9. and remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is none besides Me,

10. declaring beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together; and I said, all My counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned;

11. calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned; I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

12. Hearken to Me, you senseless ones, that are far from righteousness;

13. I have brought near My righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from Me; I have given salvation in Zion to Israel for glory.