Isaiah 46:1
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
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.
Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Bel
- Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.
- Isaiah 21:9; Isaiah 41:6, 7; Exodus 12:12; 1 Samuel 5:3; Jeremiah 48:1–25; Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 51:44, 47, 52
- a burden
- Isaiah 2:20; Jeremiah 10:5