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Babylonia's Gods Are Helpless

The Lord said:

46 The gods Bel and Nebo[a]
    are down on their knees,
as wooden images of them
are carried away
    on weary animals.[b]
They are down on their knees
    to rescue the heavy load,
but the images are still taken
    to a foreign country.

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Footnotes

  1. 46.1 Bel and Nebo: Bel was another name for Marduk, the chief god of the Babylonians. Nebo was the son of Marduk and also an important god.
  2. 46.1 as … animals: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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