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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
their images, once carried in your processions, have been loaded on to beasts and cattle, a burden for the weary creatures; not for them to bring the burden to safety; the gods themselves go into captivity. and all the remnant of the house of Israel, a load on me from your birth, carried by me from the womb: and when white hairs come, I will carry you still; I have made you and I will bear the burden, I will carry you and bring you to safety. With whom can you compare me? Where is my like? and weigh out their silver with a balance hire a goldsmith to fashion them into a god; then they worship it and fall prostrate before it; they set it down on its base; there it must stand, it cannot stir from its place. Let a man cry to it as he will, it never answers him; it cannot deliver him from his troubles. consider it well, and abandon hope, for I am God, there is no other, I am God, and there is no one like me; from ancient times I reveal what is to be; I say, ‘My purpose shall take effect, I will accomplish all that I please.’ one from a distant land to fulfil my purpose. Mark this; I have spoken, and I will bring it about,
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