{"id":381,"date":"2025-03-11T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:52:41","slug":"isaiah-46-1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 46: 1-7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;<br>their idols are on beasts and livestock;<br>these things you <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">carry<\/mark> are borne<br>as burdens on weary beasts.<br>2 They stoop; they bow down together;<br>they cannot <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">save<\/mark> the burden,<br>but themselves go into captivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">3 \u201cListen to me, O house of Jacob,<br>all the remnant of the house of Israel,<br>who have been borne by me from before your birth,<br><mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">carried<\/mark> from the womb;<br>4 even to your old age I am He,<br>and to gray hairs I will <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">carry<\/mark> you. <br>I have made, and I will bear;<br>I will <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">carry<\/mark> and will <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">save<\/mark>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 \u201cTo whom will you liken me and make me equal,<br>and compare me, that we may be alike?<br>6 Those who lavish gold from the purse,<br>and weigh out silver in the scales,<br>hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;<br>then they fall down and worship!<br>7 They lift it to their shoulders, they <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">carry<\/mark> it,<br>they set it in its place, and it stands there;<br>it cannot move from its place.<br>If one cries to it, it does not answer<br>or <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">save<\/mark> him from his trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;their idols are on beasts and livestock;these things you carry are borneas burdens on weary beasts.2 They stoop; they bow down together;they cannot save the burden,but themselves go into captivity. 3 \u201cListen to me, O house of Jacob,all the remnant of the house of Israel,who have been borne by me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}