Isaiah 46
1 to bow Bel to stoop Nebo to be idol their to/for living thing and to/for animal burden your to lift burden to/for faint
[It is as though] Bel and Nebo, the statues of the gods [of Babylonia], are bowing down as those statues are put on animals and carried away! The statues are heavy burdens and will cause the animals to become tired [SAR]!
2 to stoop to bow together not be able to escape burden and soul: myself their in/on/with captivity to go: went
[It seems like] both gods are bowing down; not only can they not save themselves, but they themselves are being (exiled/taken to another country)!
3 to hear: hear to(wards) me house: household Jacob and all remnant house: household Israel [the] to lift from belly: womb [the] to lift: bear from womb
[Yahweh says], “You descendants of Jacob who were exiled, [I am not like the gods of Babylonia that must be carried]; [instead, it is as though] I have carried you since you first became a nation [MET]. I carried you [even] before you became a nation.
4 and till old age I he/she/it and till greyheaded I to bear I to make and I to lift: bear and I to bear and to escape
I will be your God, and I will carry you for many years, until [it is as though] [MET] your nation is an old man with gray hair. I caused [you to become a nation], and I will sustain you and rescue you.
5 to/for who? to resemble me and be like and to liken me and to resemble
There is certainly [RHQ] no one to whom I can be compared. There is [RHQ] no one who is equal to me [DOU].
6 [the] to lavish/despise gold from purse and silver: money in/on/with branch: scales to weigh to hire to refine and to make him god to prostrate also to bow
[So it is stupid/ridiculous that] some people pour out gold and silver from their bags and weigh it on a scale. [Then] they hire a man who makes things from gold to make an idol from it. [After he makes an idol], they bow down and worship it!
7 to lift: raise him upon shoulder to bear him and to rest him underneath: stand him and to stand: stand from place his not to remove also to cry to(wards) him and not to answer from distress his not to save him
They lift it up and carry it on their shoulders. They put it in a [special] place, and it stays there. It cannot move! And when someone prays to it, it does not answer. So [obviously] it cannot rescue anyone from his troubles!
8 to remember this and be manly to return: recall to transgress upon heart
[You people of Judah], do not forget this; keep thinking about it, you sinful people!
9 to remember first: previous from forever: antiquity for I God and nothing still God and end like me
Think about the things [that I did] long ago. Only I am God; I am God, and there is no one like me.
10 to tell from first: beginning end and from front: old which not to make: do to say counsel my to arise: establish and all pleasure my to make: do
Only I can tell what will happen in the future before it occurs; I tell it long before it happens. I will accomplish everything that I plan to accomplish, and I will do everything that I want to do.
11 to call: call to from east bird of prey from land: country/planet distance man (counsel my *Q(K)*) also to speak: speak also to come (in): come her to form: plan also to make: do her
So I will summon [someone to come] from the east [like a swift and powerful] eagle; he will come from a distant country. He will accomplish what I want him to. [He is the one who] will do what I have said that I want him to do, what I have planned.
12 to hear: hear to(wards) me mighty: strong heart [the] distant from righteousness
You stubborn people [of Israel], [you think that] it will be a long time before you are allowed to return to your own country.
13 to present: come righteousness my not to remove and deliverance: salvation my not to delay and to give: put in/on/with Zion deliverance: salvation to/for Israel beauty my
But I will rescue you, and it will not be a long time [before that happens]. I will do it soon. I will rescue Jerusalem and show to you Israeli [people] that I am glorious.”
