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\c 46
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\q1
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\v 1 It is as though Bel and Nebo, the statues of the gods of Babylonia,
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\q2 were bowing down as they are put on animals and carried away!
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\q1 The statues are heavy burdens and will cause the animals to become tired!
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\q1
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\v 2 Gods and animals are all bowed down;
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\q2 the gods can save neither themselves nor the beasts of burden;
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\q2 the gods themselves are going into exile!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 Yahweh says, "You descendants of Jacob who were exiled,
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\q1 I am not like the gods of Babylonia that must be carried;
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\q2 instead, it is as though I have carried you
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\q1 since you first became a nation.
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\q2 I carried you even before you became a nation.
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\q1
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\v 4 I will be your God, and I will carry you for many years,
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\q2 until it is as though your nation is an old man with gray hair.
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\q1 I caused you to become a nation,
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\q2 and I will sustain you and rescue you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 There is certainly no one to whom I can be compared.
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\q2 There is no one who is equal to me.
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\q1
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\v 6 So it is stupid that some people pour out gold and silver from their bags
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\q2 and weigh it on a scale.
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\q1 Then they hire a man who makes things from gold to make an idol from it.
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\q2 After he makes an idol, they bow down and worship it!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 They lift it up and carry it on their shoulders.
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\q2 They put it in a special place,
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\q2 and it stays there.
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\q1 It cannot move!
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\q1 And when someone prays to it, it does not answer.
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\q2 So obviously it cannot rescue anyone from his troubles!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 You people of Judah, do not forget this;
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\q2 keep thinking about it, you sinful people!
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\q1
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\v 9 Think about the things that I did long ago.
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\q2 Only I am God; I am God, and there is no one like me.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 Only I can tell what will happen in the future before it occurs;
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\q2 I tell it long before it happens.
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\q1 I will accomplish everything that I plan to accomplish,
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\q2 and I will do everything that I want to do.
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\q1
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\v 11 So I will summon Cyrus to come from the east like a swift and powerful eagle;
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\q2 he will come from a distant country.
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\q1 He will accomplish what I want him to.
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\q2 He is the one who will do what I have said that I want him to do,
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\q2 what I have planned.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 You stubborn people of Israel,
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\q2 you who are completely unable to do what is right,
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\q1
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\v 13 I will rescue you,
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\q2 and it will not be a long time before that happens.
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\q2 I will do it soon.
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\q1 I will rescue Jerusalem
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\q2 and show to you Israelite people that I am glorious."
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