Isaiah 46:2
What does Isaiah 46:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 46:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity have gone.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.
Context
v.1Bel 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.
v.2This passage
v.3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borneby mefrom their birth, that have been carried from the womb;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
- Isaiah 36:18
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Isaiah 37:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
- 2 Samuel 5:21
And they left their images there; and David and his men took them away.
- Judges 18:17
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
- Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
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