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46 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and cattle;
these things you carry are loaded
    as burdens on weary animals.(A)

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Gods of Babylon

46 Bel(A) bows down, Nebo stoops low;
    their idols(B) are borne by beasts of burden.[a]
The images that are carried(C) about are burdensome,
    a burden for the weary.

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  1. Isaiah 46:1 Or are but beasts and cattle

They stoop; they bow down together;
    they cannot save the burden
    but themselves go into captivity.(A)

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They stoop and bow down together;
    unable to rescue the burden,
    they themselves go off into captivity.(A)

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22 Assyria is there and all its company, their graves all around it, all of them killed, fallen by the sword.(A)

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22 “Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword.

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23 Their graves are set in the uttermost parts of the Pit. Its company is all around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.(A)

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23 Their graves are in the depths of the pit(A) and her army lies around her grave.(B) All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.

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13 and I will cut off your images
    and your pillars from among you,
and you shall bow down no more
    to the work of your hands;

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13 I will destroy your idols(A)
    and your sacred stones from among you;(B)
you will no longer bow down
    to the work of your hands.(C)

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14 and I will uproot your sacred poles[a] from among you
    and destroy your towns.(A)

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  1. 5.14 Or Asherahs

14 I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles[a](A)
    when I demolish your cities.

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  1. Micah 5:14 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah