Dual Panel1Bel <01078> kneels down <03766>, Nebo <05015> bends low <07164>. Their images <06091> weigh down <05385> animals <02416> and beasts <0929>. Your heavy images <04853> are burdensome <06006> to tired <05889> animals.
2Together <03162> they bend low <07164> and kneel down <03766>; they are unable <03201> <03808> to rescue <04422> the images <04853>; they themselves <05315> head off <01980> into captivity <07628>.
3“Listen <08085> to <0413> me, O family <01004> of Jacob <03290>, all <03605> you who are left <07611> from the family <01004> of Israel <03478>, you who have been carried <06006> from <04480> birth <0990>, you who have been supported <05375> from <04480> the time you left the womb <07356>.
4Even <05704> when you are old <02209>, I <0589> will take care of you, even <05704> when you have gray hair <07872>, I <0589> will carry <05445> you. I <0589> made <06213> you and I <0589> will support <05375> you; I <0589> will carry <05445> you and rescue <04422> you.
5To whom <04310> can you compare <07737> and liken <01819> me? Tell me whom you think I resemble <04911>, so we can be compared <01819>!
6Those who empty out <02107> gold <02091> from a purse <03599> and weigh out <08254> silver <03701> on the scale <07070> hire <07936> a metalsmith <06884>, who makes <06213> it into a god <0410>. They then bow down <05456> and <0637> worship <07812> it.
7They put <05375> it on <05921> their shoulder <03802> and carry <05445> it; they put <03240> it in its place <08478> and it just stands <05975> there; it does not <03808> move <04185> from its place <04725>. Even <0637> when someone cries out <06817> to <0413> it, it does not <03808> reply <06030>; it does not <03808> deliver <03467> him from his distress <06869>.
8Remember <02142> this <02063>, so you can be brave <0377>! Think <03820> <07725> about <05921> it, you rebels <06586>!
9Remember <02142> what I accomplished in antiquity <05769> <07223>! Truly I <0595> am God <0410>, I have no <0369> peer <05750>; I am God <0430>, and there is none <0657> like <03644> me,
10who announces <05046> the end <0319> from the beginning <07225> and reveals beforehand <06924> what <0834> has not <03808> yet occurred <06213>, who says <0559>, ‘My plan <06098> will be realized <06965>, I will accomplish <06213> what <03605> I desire <02656>,’
11who summons <07121> an eagle <05861> from the east <04217>, from a distant <04801> land <0776>, one <0376> who carries out my plan <06098>. Yes <0637>, I have decreed <01696>, yes <0637>, I will bring <0935> it to pass; I have formulated a plan <03335>, yes <0637>, I will carry <06213> it out <06213>.
12Listen <08085> to <0413> me, you stubborn <047> people, you who distance <07350> yourself from doing what is right <06666>.
13I am bringing <07126> my deliverance <06666> near <07126>, it is not <03808> far away <07368>; I am bringing my salvation <08668> near, it does not <03808> wait <0309>. I will save <08668> Zion <06726>; I will adorn Israel <03478> with my splendor <08597>.”