^{1 Ref} Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the cattle: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].

^{2 Ref} They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

^{3 Ref} Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

^{4 Ref} and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

^{5 Ref} To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

^{6 Ref} Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.

^{7 Ref} They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.