1Beyl has fallen and Nabu has been overthrown, and their idols were carved images. The burdens are packed up on a beast and on a hungry domestic beast of burden
2They stumbled and they fell as one, and they were not able to deliver their bearers, and their souls went on into captivity
3Hear me, those of the house of Yaqob, and all the remainder of Israel, for they are carried in the belly and they are carried in the womb
4Until old age, I am He, and unto ancient age I shall carry. I have made and I shall lift up and I shall carry and I shall deliver
5To whom have you compared me and have made me equal?
6To those who go astray and they cast gold out of their bags and they weigh silver in a balance, and they hire a smith, and they make a god and they worship it, also they pray to it?
7And they pick it up on their shoulders, and they walk it and they lay it on its place, and it cannot rise up from its place; also they pray to it and it does not answer them, and it does not save them from their afflictions
8Remember these things and consider and bring the evils to your heart
9Remember the former things that are from eternity, for I AM God, and there is no other god, and there is none like me
10I am showing the end things from the beginning, and from the former time those that have not been made. I said, “My counsel I establish and I do all my will”
11I call a bird of prey from the East, and from a distant land a man of my counsel. I speak, I also make it happen. I fashioned, I also make
12Hear me, hard of heart, those far from righteousness
13My righteousness to come has come near, and my salvation shall not delay, and I shall give salvation in Zion and my glory to Israel
