Isaiah 46:2 Parallel Translations
NASB: They stooped over, they have bowed down together; They could not rescue the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: These gods stoop low and bow down together. They aren't able to escape with heavy loads. They go away into captivity.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
ASV: They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
BBE: They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
DBY: They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.
ERV: They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
JPS: They stoop, they bow down together, they could not deliver the burden; and themselves are gone into captivity.
WBS: They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves have gone into captivity.
WEB: They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
YLT: They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity have gone.
Isaiah 46:2 Cross References
XREF:Judges 18:17 Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

Judges 18:18 When these went into Micah's house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"

2 Samuel 5:21 They abandoned their idols there, so David and his men carried them away.

Jeremiah 43:12 "And I shall set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.

Jeremiah 43:13 "He will also shatter the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire."'"

Jeremiah 48:7 "For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh will go off into exile Together with his priests and his princes.

Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria will fear For the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it, Over its glory, since it has departed from it.

Hosea 10:6 The thing itself will be carried to Assyria As tribute to King Jareb; Ephraim will be seized with shame And Israel will be ashamed of its own counsel. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 46:2 {c} They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but {d} themselves have gone into captivity.
(c) The beasts that carried the idols fell down under their burden.
(d) He derides the idols, who had neither soul nor sense.
WES: 46:2 They - The Babylonians. Together - The Babylonians and their idols together, neither could help the other. Deliver - The Babylonians could not deliver their idols.
MHC: 46:1-4 The heathen insulted the Jews, as if their idols Bel and Nebo were too hard for Jehovah. But their worshippers cannot help them; both the idols and the idolaters are gone into captivity. Let not God's people be afraid of either. Those things from which ungodly men expect safety and happiness, will be found unable to save them from death and hell. The true God will never fail his worshippers. The history of the life of every believer is a kind of abstract of the history of Israel. Our spiritual life is upheld by his grace, as constantly as our natural life by his providence. And God will never leave them. The Author will be the Finisher of their well-being, when, by decays, they need help as much as in infancy. This promise to Israel, enfeebled and grown old as a nation, is applicable to every aged follower of Christ. When compassed about with infirmities, and perhaps those around begin to grow weary of you, yet I am He that I have promised to be, He that you would have me to be. I will bear you up; carry you on in your way, and carry you home at last. If we learn to trust in and love him, we need not be anxious about our remaining days or years; he will still provide for us and watch over us, both as the creatures of his power, and as new-created by his Spirit.
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