The Idols of Babylon and the One True God
1 Jer. 50:2;51:44;[ch. 21:9]Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
2 They stoop; they bow down together;
they cannot save the burden,
but [Jer. 48:7;Hos. 10:5,6]themselves go into captivity.
3 "Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
[Deut. 1:31;32:11]who have been borne by me from before your birth,
carried from the womb;
4 [Ps. 71:18]even to your old age I am he,
and to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save.