Isaiah Chapter 46 verse 2 Holy Bible
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
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They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
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They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.
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They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
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They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
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They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity have gone.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - They stoop, they bow down together; i.e. all the Babylonian gods would suffer equally - not one would be able to protect himself. They could not deliver the burden. A distinction is here made between the god and the idol, which have hitherto been identified. The god was, in each case, unable to deliver, or save from capture, the heavy "burden" of gold, or silver, or bronze (i.e. his own image) which was carried off on the back of the "weary beast." On the contrary, the gods themselves - the "souls" of the images, immanent in them - were carried off with the images into captivity.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) They could not deliver the burden.--The deities are, for the moment, distinguished from their images. They are powerless to rescue them. So far as they have a soul or being at all, that very being is carried away captive.
