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| [1]Bel is fallen, Nabo is broken downe, whose images were a burthen for the beastes and cattell, to ouerlade them, and to make them weerie |
[1]BEL has fallen down, Nebo is overthrown; their idols were loaded as burdens upon beasts, yea, upon weary beasts and cattle. |
| [2]They are sunke downe and fallen together, for they may not ease them of their burthen, therfore must they go into captiuitie |
[2]They were overthrown, they have fallen down together; they could not rescue those who carried them, but they themselves are gone into captivity. |
| [3]Hearken vnto me O house Iacob, and all ye that remaine yet of the house of Israel, whom I haue borne from your mothers wombe, and brought you vp from your byrth |
[3]Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, even those who are borne in the belly and who still are carried in the womb: |
| [4]It is euen I whiche shall beare you vnto your last age: I haue made you, I wyll also norishe you, beare you, and saue you |
[4]Even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs I will endure. I have made and I will sustain; even I will carry and will deliver |
| [5]whom wyll ye make me lyke, or to whom wyll ye make me equall or compare me, that I shoulde be like him |
[5]To whom will you liken me and make me equal and compare me, that we may be alike? |
| [6]Take out siluer and gold out of your purses, and way it, and hyre a goldesmith to make a god of it, that men may kneele downe and worship it |
[6]To those who go astray, who pour out gold from their bags and weigh silver in the balance and hire a goldsmith; and they make it a god; they worship it, and they also pray to it? |
| [7]Yet must he be taken on mens shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stande, and not moue out of his place: And if one crye vnto hym, he geueth no aunswere, and deliuereth not the man that calleth vpon hym from his trouble |
[7]They bear it upon their shoulders, they carry it and set it in its place, and it cannot rise up from its place; they also pray to it, but it does not answer them nor save them from their troubles. |
| [8]Consider this well, and be ashamed: go into your owne selues |
[8]Remember these things and discern; bring it again to your mind, O you transgressors! |
| [9]Remember the thinges that are past since the beginning of the worlde, that I am God, and that there is els no God, yea and that there is nothing like vnto me |
[9]Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other god; and there is none like me, |
| [10]In the beginning of a thing I shewe the ende therof, & I tell before thinges that are not yet come to passe: My deuise standeth stedfastly stablished, and I fulfill all my pleasure |
[10]Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure, |
| [11]I call a byrde out of the east, and the man by whom my counsayle shalbe fulfilled out of straunge countreys, as I haue spoken, so wyll I bryng to passe, assoone as I thinke to deuise a thing, I do it |
[11]Calling a ruler swift as a bird from the east, the man who executes my counsel from a far land; yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. |
| [12]Heare me O ye that are of an hye stomacke, but farre from righteousnesse |
[12]Hearken to me, O you stubborn of heart, that are far from righteousness; |
| [13]I shall bryng foorth my righteousnesse, it is not farre, and my health shall not tary long away: I wyll lay health in Sion, and in Israel my glory |
[13]My righteousness is near; it shall not be far off, my salvation shall not tarry; and I will give salvation in Zion and for Israel my glory |