Isaiah 46:1
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46 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
their idols are on beasts and cattle;
these things you carry are loaded
as burdens on weary animals.(A)
Isaiah 40:20
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20 As a gift one chooses mulberry wood[a]
—wood that will not rot—
then seeks out a skilled artisan
to set up an image that will not topple.(A)
Footnotes
- 40.20 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 41:26
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26 Who declared it from the beginning, so that we might know,
and beforehand, so that we might say, “He is right”?
There was no one who declared it, none who proclaimed,
none who heard your words.(A)
Isaiah 41:28
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28 But when I look there is no one;
among these there is no counselor
who, when I ask, gives an answer.(A)
Isaiah 44:17
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17 The rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, bows down to it and worships it; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god!”(A)
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Isaiah 45:20
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Idols Cannot Save Babylon
20 Assemble yourselves and come together;
draw near, you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge—
those who carry about their wooden idols
and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.(A)
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