1. Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;their idols are on beasts and livestock;these things you carry are borneas burdens on weary beasts.
2. They stoop; they bow down together;they cannot save the burden,but themselves go into captivity.
3. “Listen to me, O house of Jacob,all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth,carried from the womb;
4. even to your old age I am he,and to gray hairs I will carry you.I have made, and I will bear;I will carry and will save.
5. “To whom will you liken me and make me equal,and compare me, that we may be alike?