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Isaiah 46:1

Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

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ASV

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כָּרַ֥עka.Ra'he has bowed downH3766 →
בֵּל֙belBelH1078 →
קֹרֵ֣סko.Res[is] stooping lowH7164 →
נְב֔וֹne.VoNeboH5015 →
הָיוּ֙ha.Yuthey belongH1961 →
עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֔ם'a.tza.bei.Hemidols theirH6091 →
לַחַיָּ֖הla.chai.Yahto the animal[s]H2416 →
וְלַבְּהֵמָ֑הve.la.be.he.Mahand to the cattleH929 →
נְשֻׂאֹתֵיכֶ֣םne.su.'o.tei.Khemburdens yourH5385 →
עֲמוּס֔וֹתa.mu.Sot[are] carriedH6006 →
מַשָּׂ֖אma.Sa'a loadH4853 →
לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃la.'a.ye.Fahfor a weary [animal]H5889 →

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Isaiah 21:9Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”Jeremiah 51:44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.Jeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’Numbers 32:38as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.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.Daniel 3:14and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue I have set up?Jeremiah 51:52“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.Jeremiah 48:1–25Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.Isaiah 41:6–7Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”Jeremiah 51:47Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.Exodus 12:12On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.Jeremiah 10:5Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”1 Samuel 5:3When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.Isaiah 46:7They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.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.Daniel 4:8But at last, into my presence came Daniel (whose name is Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods). And I told him the dream:Jeremiah 51:18They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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