[a]They are bowed down, and fallen together, for they could not rid them of the burden, and their [b]soul is gone into captivity.

Hear ye me, O house of Jacob, and all that remain of the house of Israel, which are [c]born of me from the womb, and brought up of me from the birth.

Therefore unto [d]old age, I the same, even I will bear you until the hoary hairs: I have made you: I will also bear you, and I will carry you, and I will deliver you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 46:2 The beasts that carried the idols, fell down under their burden.
  2. Isaiah 46:2 He derideth the idols, which had neither soul nor sense.
  3. Isaiah 46:3 He showeth the difference between the idols and the true God: for they must be carried of others, but God himself carrieth his, as Deut. 32:11.
  4. Isaiah 46:4 Seeing I have begotten you, I will nourish and preserve you forever.

They stoop and bow down together;
    unable to rescue the burden,
    they themselves go off into captivity.(A)

“Listen(B) to me, you descendants of Jacob,
    all the remnant(C) of the people of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since your birth,(D)
    and have carried(E) since you were born.(F)
Even to your old age and gray hairs(G)
    I am he,(H) I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
    I will sustain(I) you and I will rescue you.

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