1 Bal (Bel) karai (bows) down, Nabaw (Nebo) qaras (stoops); their itzab (idols) are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a imas (load), a mashaa (burden) to the iyap (weary).
2 They qaras (stoop), they karai (bow) down yachad (together); they yakal (could) not malat (deliver) the mashaa (burden), but themselves have halak (move) into shabay (captivity).
3 “Shamai (hearken / hear) to me, bayath (house) of Yaiqab (Jacob - Patriarch), and all the shaarayath (remnant) of the bayath (house) of Yashar-Al (Israel), that have been imas (borne) from their birth, that have been nashaa (lift) from the racham (show mercy / love);
4 And even to zaqanah (old) age I am he, and even to shayabah (old age / white hair - due to age) hairs will I sabal (carry) you. I ishah (make) made, and I will nashaa (lift); yes, I will sabal (carry), and will malat (deliver).
5 “To whom will you damah (liken) me, and shawah (make) me equal, and mashal (speak in proverb/parable) me, that we may be damah (like)?
6 Some pour out zahab (gold) from the kayas (bag), and shaqal (weigh) kasap (silver) in the qanah (balance). They shakar (hire) a tzarap (goldsmith), and he ishah (make) it a Al. They sagad (fall) down—yes, they shachah (worship).
7 They nashaa (lift) it on the kathap (shoulder), they sabal (carry) it, and yanach (set) it in its place, and it imad (stands), from its maqawam (place) it shall not move: yes, one may tzaiq (cry) to it, yet it can not inah (answer / respond), nor yashai (salvation) him out of his tzarah (trouble).
8 “Zakar (remember) this, and ayash (man / husband) yourselves men; shawab (turn) it again to lab (heart), you transgressors.
9 Zakar (remember) the raashawan (former) things of iwalam (forever): for I am Al, and there is none else; I am Alahayam (), and there is apas (none) kamaw (like) me;
10 Nagad (declaring) the acharayath (end) from the raashayath (beginning), and from qadam (ancient) times things that are not yet ishah (make); amar (said), My itzah (counsel) shall qawam (rise up), and I will ishah (make) all my chapatz (pleasure);
11 Qaraa (called) a iyat (ravenous) bird from the mazarach (east), the ayash (man / husband) of my itzah (counsel) from a marachaq (far) aratz (Earth/land); yes, I have dabar (word / matter), I will also bawaa (bring) it to pass; I have yatzar (purposed), I will also ishah (make) it.
12 Shamai (hearken / hear) to me, you abayar (stout-hearted), who are rachawaq (far) from tzadaqah (righteousness):
13 I qarab (come close) near my tzadaqah (righteousness), it shall not be rachaq (far) off, and my thashawaih (deliverance) shall not wait; and I will nathan (give) thashawaih (deliverance) in Tzayawan (Zion) for Yashar-Al (Israel) my glory.