Babylon’s Idols and the True God

46 (A)Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their idols have become loads for the animals and the cattle.
The things [a]that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary animal.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 46:1 Lit carried by you

Gods of Babylon

46 Bel(A) bows down, Nebo stoops low;
    their idols(B) are borne by beasts of burden.[a]
The images that are carried(C) about are burdensome,
    a burden for the weary.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 46:1 Or are but beasts and cattle

(A)Declare and proclaim among the nations.
Proclaim it and (B)lift up a flag,
Do not conceal it. Say,
(C)Babylon has been captured,
(D)Bel has been put to shame, [a]Marduk has been [b]shattered;
Her (E)idols have been put to shame, her images have been shattered.’

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  1. Jeremiah 50:2 Heb Merodach
  2. Jeremiah 50:2 Or dismayed

“Announce and proclaim(A) among the nations,
    lift up a banner(B) and proclaim it;
    keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;(C)
    Bel(D) will be put to shame,(E)
    Marduk(F) filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
    and her idols(G) filled with terror.’

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44 (A)I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed (B)come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer (C)stream toward him.
Even the (D)wall of Babylon has fallen down!

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44 I will punish Bel(A) in Babylon
    and make him spew out(B) what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
    And the wall(C) of Babylon will fall.

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