Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity.
New American Standard Bible
They could not rescue the burden,
But
King James Version
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
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.
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 bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary. 2 They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity. 3 Hear to me, ye house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, being carried from the belly, being lifted up from the womb:
Cross References
Judges 18:17-18
And the five men having gone to search the land will go up; they will come in there; they took the carved thing and the ephod, and the teraphim and the molten thing: and the priest stood at the door of the gate, and the six hundred men girded with weapons of war.
2 Samuel 5:21
And they will leave there their images, and David and his men will take them away.
Jeremiah 48:7
For because of thy boasting in thy works and in thy treasures, also thou shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his chiefs together.
Judges 18:24
And he will say, My gods which I made, ye took away, and the priest, and ye will go: and what to me yet? and what this ye will say to me, What to thee?
Jeremiah 43:12-13
And I kindled a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he burnt them and carried them away captive: and he covered himself with the land of Egypt as the shepherd will cover himself with his garment; and he will go forth from thence in peace.
Isaiah 36:18-19
Lest Hezekiah shall stimulate you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Did each of the gods of the nations deliver his land from the hand of the king of Assur?
Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations deliver them which my fathers destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden which were in Thelassar?
Isaiah 37:19
And he gave their gods into fire; for they were not God but the work of man's hands, wood and stone: and they will destroy them.
Isaiah 44:17
And its remainder he made for a god, for his carved image: he will fall down to it, and he will worship and pray to it, and say, Deliver me, for thou my god.
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.
Hosea 10:5-6
For the calves of the house of vanity they shall fear dwelling in Shomeron: for his people mourned over it, and his priests will exult over it, for its glory, for it was removed from it