Isaiah 46:2

They stoop and they bow down together. 2 They could not deliver the burden, 2 but they have gone into captivity. 1

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In The King James Version

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

In Context

1Bel bows down. 2 Nebo stoops. 1 Their idols are carried by animals, 2 and on the livestock. 1 The things that you carried around are heavy loads, 2 a burden for the weary. 1

3“ Sh'ma ·Hear obey· me, house of Jacob [Supplanter], 2 and all the remnant of the house of Israel [God prevails], 1 that have been carried from their birth, 2 that have been carried from the rachamim ·wombs / bowels of compassions·. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 37:12Have the deities of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran [Mountaineer], Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

Isaiah 44:17The rest of it he makes into a deity, 2 even his engraved image. 1 He bows down to it and worships, 2 and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my deity!” 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 46:2-5

The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: 4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar… Read the whole commentary →

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