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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 46 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/46.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/46-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Isaiah 46</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/45.htm" title="Isaiah 45">◄</a> Isaiah 46 <a href="../isaiah/47.htm" title="Isaiah 47">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/46-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Babylon’s Idols<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Bel bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Hear to me, ye house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, being carried from the belly, being lifted up from the womb:<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I will deliver.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>To whom will ye liken me and make equal? and compare me and we shall be like?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Remember this, shew yourselves men: turn back, ye transgressing, upon the heart.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Remember the former things from forever: for I am God and no god besides, and none like me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight:<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Calling a ravenous beast from the sunrising, from a land afar off a man of my counsel: also I spake, also I will bring it; I formed, also I will do it.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hear to me, ye strong of heart, being far from justice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/46-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I brought near my justice; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I gave salvation in Zion for Israel my beauty.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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