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Even[a] until your[b] old age, I am the one,
    and I’ll carry you even until your gray hairs come.[c]
It is I who have created,[d] and I who will carry,
    and it is I who will bear and save.

“To whom will you compare me,
    count me equal,[e] or liken me,
        so that I[f] may be compared?
Those who pour out gold in[g] a purse,
    weigh silver in a balance,
hire a goldsmith in order to make[h] a god,
    and then[i] they bow down and even worship it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 46:4 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and even
  2. Isaiah 46:4 1QIsaa MT LXX lack your
  3. Isaiah 46:4 1QIsaa MT LXX lack come
  4. Isaiah 46:4 Or made
  5. Isaiah 46:5 So 1QIsaa (sing.); 1QIsab MT read consider equal (pl.); LXX reads see
  6. Isaiah 46:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads we
  7. Isaiah 46:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read from
  8. Isaiah 46:6 So 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsab MT read make it
  9. Isaiah 46:6 Lit. and; so 1QIsaa 1QIsab LXX; MT lacks then