Isaiah 46:2

Translations

Modern

The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

Traditional

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

Literal

They stoop low, they bend down together; they could not deliver the burden, and their souls have gone into captivity.

Latin

Contabuerunt, et contrita sunt simul; non potuerunt salvare portantem, et anima eorum in captivitatem ibit.

Original

Hebrew

English

The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

Notes

Isaiah 46:1–2

This taunt was against the self-contradiction of Babylonian religion.

A taunt is a mocking song or speech. In this passage, the prophet makes fun of Babylon’s beliefs. The message shows that their religion does not make sense.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 48:7
Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
Judges 18:17–18
And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
Judges 18:24
He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
Jeremiah 43:12–13
I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.
2 Samuel 5:21
There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
Isaiah 45:20
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 37:19
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
Hosea 10:5–6
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
Isaiah 36:18–19
Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 44:17
From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”

Glossary

Church Isaiah, Book of Monotheism New Creation, New Creature Ransom

Topics

Babylon: City of Prophecies Concerning Idolatry: Folly of

Isaiah 46:2

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