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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

Even to your old age and gray hairs(A)
    I am he,(B) I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
    I will sustain(C) you and I will rescue you.

“With whom will you compare me or count me equal?
    To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?(D)
Some pour out gold from their bags
    and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith(E) to make it into a god,
    and they bow down and worship it.(F)

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