Parallel Verses
King James Version
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
New American Standard Bible
They could not rescue the burden,
But
Holman Bible
they are not able to rescue the burden,
but they themselves go into captivity.
International Standard Version
They stoop, they bow down together, and they are not able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go off into captivity.
A Conservative Version
They stoop, they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
American Standard Version
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Amplified
They stooped over, they have bowed down together;
They could not rescue the burden [of their own idols],
But have themselves gone into captivity.
Bible in Basic English
They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
Darby Translation
They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.
Julia Smith Translation
They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity.
King James 2000
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but are themselves gone into captivity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They stoop; they bow down together. They are not able to save [the] burden, but {they themselves go} in captivity.
Modern King James verseion
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they themselves have gone into captivity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They are sunk down, and fallen together; for they may not ease them of their burden, therefore must they go into captivity.
NET Bible
Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.
New Heart English Bible
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity.
The Emphasized Bible
They have cowered they have crouched at once, And they cannot rescue the burden, - But their own soul, into captivity, hath departed.
Webster
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves have gone into captivity.
World English Bible
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Youngs Literal Translation
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 46:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Babylon's Idols
1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Cross References
Judges 18:17-18
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
2 Samuel 5:21
And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
Jeremiah 48:7
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
Judges 18:24
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
Jeremiah 43:12-13
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
Isaiah 36:18-19
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 37:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Isaiah 44:17
And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
Hosea 10:5-6
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.