Isaiah 46:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.

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  • Isa 45:20 : 20 Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
  • Jer 10:5 : 5 It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
  • Dan 3:1 : 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon.
  • Jonah 1:5 : 5 Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.
  • Jonah 1:14-16 : 14 So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you. 15 So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry. 16 Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.
  • Judg 10:12-14 : 12 And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands? 13 But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer. 14 Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
  • 1 Sam 5:3 : 3 And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again.
  • 1 Kgs 18:26 : 26 So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.
  • 1 Kgs 18:40 : 40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.
  • Isa 37:38 : 38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
  • Isa 46:1 : 1 Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

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  • Isa 46:1-6
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    1Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

    2They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.

    3Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

    4Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.

    5Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?

    6As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • Jer 10:4-5
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    4They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

    5It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.

  • 6I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

  • 8Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.

  • 37And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

  • 41They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

  • Jer 2:27-28
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    27Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

    28But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

  • 17And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

  • 42They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

  • 24Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Isa 40:18-21
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    18Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

    19The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

    20The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

    21Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

  • 12Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.

  • 20Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    7They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

    8Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

  • 19A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

  • 22Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

  • 9Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

  • 20You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

  • 28Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.

  • 7For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

  • 16And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.

  • 36Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

  • 9Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

  • 17See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

  • 2He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.

  • 15Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

  • Isa 44:10-11
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    10Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

    11Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.

  • 19...

  • 12For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

  • 6This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

  • 14A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • 28So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

  • 19They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

  • 4Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • 8And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

  • 13Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.

  • 15The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • 5And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.