Isaiah 46:2 “The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; bu…”

Isaiah 46:2

The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They are bowed downe, and fallen together: for they coulde not rid them of the burden, and their soule is gone into captiuitie.

Darby Translation

They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.

Young's Literal Translation

They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity have gone.

Bible in Basic English

They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.

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Cross references

“they could”

Isaiah 37:12 Isaiah 37:19 Isaiah 44:17 Isaiah 45:20 Isaiah 36:18 Isaiah 36:19

Isaiah 37:12 · BSB

Did 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 37:19 · BSB

They 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 44:17 · BSB

From 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 45:20 · BSB

Come, 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.

Isaiah 36:18 · BSB

Do 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 36:19 · BSB

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

“but”

Jeremiah 48:7 Judges 18:24 2 Samuel 5:21 Judges 18:17 Judges 18:18 Jeremiah 43:12

Jeremiah 48:7 · BSB

Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.

Judges 18:24 · BSB

He 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 5:21 · BSB

There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.

Judges 18:17 · BSB

And 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…

Judges 18:18 · BSB

When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Jeremiah 43:12 · BSB

I 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 garm…

Also

Hosea 10:5–6

Hosea 10:5–6 · BSB

The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

3“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

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