Isaiah 46 (NET)

Isaiah 46:1¹Bel kneels down, Nebo bends low. Their images weigh down animals and beasts. Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 21:9Jer 51:44Jer 50:21 Sam 5:3Exod 12:12Isa 2:20Isa 41:6-7Jer 10:5Jer 48:1-25Jer 51:47

Isaiah 46:2²Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 48:7Judg 18:17-182 Sam 5:21Jer 43:12-13Judg 18:24Hos 10:5-6Isa 36:18-19Isa 37:12Isa 37:19Isa 44:17

Isaiah 46:3³“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:31Isa 51:7Isa 51:1Ps 71:6Deut 32:11-12Exod 19:4Isa 1:9Isa 10:22Isa 44:1-2Isa 48:1

Isaiah 46:4⁴Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 71:18Ps 48:14Heb 13:8Ps 92:14Jas 1:17Ps 102:26-27Heb 1:12Rom 11:29Isa 41:4Mal 3:6

Isaiah 46:5⁵To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:18Isa 40:25Ps 89:6Col 1:15Exod 15:11Jer 10:16Jer 10:6-7Phil 2:6Ps 113:5Ps 86:8

Isaiah 46:6⁶Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:29Isa 40:19-20Jer 10:141 Kgs 12:28Dan 3:5-15Exod 32:2-4Hab 2:18-20Hos 8:4-6Isa 2:8Isa 44:12-19

Isaiah 46:7⁷They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:20Jer 10:51 Sam 5:3Isa 46:11 Kgs 18:261 Kgs 18:40Dan 3:1Jer 2:28Jonah 1:14-16Jonah 1:5

Isaiah 46:8⁸Remember this, so you can be brave. Think about it, you rebels!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 14:20Deut 32:29Ezek 18:28Hag 1:5Hag 1:7Isa 44:18-21Isa 47:7Luke 15:17Ps 115:8Ps 135:18

Isaiah 46:9⁹Remember what I accomplished in antiquity. Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:21-22Isa 42:9Isa 46:5Ps 111:4Deut 33:26Deut 32:7Isa 45:18Isa 65:17Isa 45:5-6Neh 9:7-37

Isaiah 46:10¹⁰who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred; who says, ‘My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire;’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 19:21Ps 33:11Eph 1:9-11Isa 43:13Isa 45:21Prov 21:30Ps 135:6Isa 44:7Acts 5:39Isa 46:11

Isaiah 46:11¹¹who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:19Isa 14:24-27Job 23:13Isa 41:2Eph 1:11Acts 5:39Ezra 1:2Isa 38:15Isa 48:14-15Ps 119:24

Isaiah 46:12¹²Listen to me, you stubborn people, you who distance yourselves from doing what is right.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:5Eph 2:13Isa 46:3Isa 28:23Isa 48:4Prov 1:22-23Prov 8:1-5Ps 119:150Ps 119:155Ps 49:1

Isaiah 46:13¹³I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away; I am bringing my salvation near, it does not wait. I will save Zion; I will adorn Israel with my splendor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 12:2Isa 62:11Isa 51:5Isa 61:3Isa 43:7Isa 44:231 Pet 2:62 Thess 1:10Hab 2:3Isa 61:11