Isaiah 46:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.”
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“The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity have gone.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 46:2 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 18:17And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
- Judges 18:24He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
- 2 Samuel 5:21There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
- Isaiah 36:18Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Isaiah 37:12Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
- Isaiah 37:19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
- Isaiah 44:17From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
- Isaiah 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
- Jeremiah 43:12I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.
- Jeremiah 48:7Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
- Hosea 10:5The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.
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