Yesaya 46:1
KonteksNebo 2 bends low.
Their images weigh down animals and beasts. 3
Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals. 4
Yesaya 46:3
Konteks46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, 5
all you who are left from the family of Israel, 6
you who have been carried from birth, 7
you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. 8


[46:1] 1 sn Bel was the name of a Babylonian god. The name was originally associated with Enlil, but later was applied to Marduk. See HALOT 132 s.v. בֵּל.
[46:1] 2 sn Nebo is a variation of the name of the Babylonian god Nabu.
[46:1] 3 tn Heb “their images belong to animals and beasts”; NIV “their idols are borne by beasts of burden”; NLT “are being hauled away.”
[46:1] 4 tn Heb “your loads are carried [as] a burden by a weary [animal].”
[46:3] 5 tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”
[46:3] 6 tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”
[46:3] 7 tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”