- 1. Bel is bowed downe: Nebo is fallen: their idoles were vpon the beastes, and vpon the cattell: they which did beare you, were laden with a wearie burden.
- 2. They are bowed downe, and fallen together: for they coulde not rid them of the burden, and their soule is gone into captiuitie.
- 3. Heare ye me, O house of Iaakob, & all that remaine of the house of Israel, which are borne of me from the wombe, and brought vp of me from the birth.
- 4. Therefore vnto olde age, I the same, euen I will beare you vntill the hoare heares: I haue made you: I will also beare you, and I will cary you and I will deliuer you.
- 5. To whom will ye make me like or make me equall, or copare me, that I should be like him?
- 6. They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it.
- 7. They beare it vpon the shoulders: they carie him and set him in his place: so doeth he stand, and cannot remoue from his place. Though one crie vnto him, yet can he not answere, nor deliuer him out of his tribulation.
- 8. Remember this, and be ashamed: bring it againe to minde, O you transgressers.
- 9. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none other God, and there is nothing like me,
- 10. Which declare the last thing from the beginning: and from of olde, the things that were not done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I will doe whatsoeuer I will.
- 11. I call a birde from the East, and the man of my counsell from farre: as I haue spoken, so will I bring it to passe: I haue purposed it, and I will doe it.
- 12. Heare me, ye stubburne hearted, that are farre from iustice.
- 13. I bring neere my iustice: it shall not be farre off, and my saluation shall not tarie: for I wil giue saluation in Zion, and my glory vnto Israel.
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