Isaiah 46:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ “Who will you compare me with?
    Who is equal to me?
What am I like?
    Who can you compare me with?
⁶ Some people pour out gold from their bags.
    They weigh out silver on the scales.
They hire someone who works with gold to make it into a god.
    They bow down to it and worship it.
⁷ They lift it up on their shoulders and carry it.
    They set it up in its place, and there it stands.
    It can’t move from that spot.
Someone might cry out to it.
    But it does not answer.
    It can’t save them from their troubles.