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Babylon’s Idols

46 Bel bows down;
    Nebo is stooping.
Their idols are on[a] animals[b] and on[c] cattle;
    your cargo[d] is carried as a burden on[e] weary animals.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 46:1 Literally “to”
  2. Isaiah 46:1 Hebrew “animal”
  3. Isaiah 46:1 Literally “to”
  4. Isaiah 46:1 Literally “things that are carried”
  5. Isaiah 46:1 Literally “to”

“Declare among the nations and proclaim,
    and lift up a banner.
Proclaim, you must not conceal it.
Say, ‘Babylon is captured,
    Bel is ashamed,
    Merodach is filled with terror,
her idols are ashamed,
    her idols are filled with terror.

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44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
    and I will wrench out from his mouth what he has swallowed.[a]
And the nations will not stream towards him any longer
    what’s worse,[b] the wall of Babylon has fallen.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:44 Literally “what has been swallowed by him”
  2. Jeremiah 51:44 Literally “also”