Isaias 46:2

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2 Sila nanagduko, sila nanagyukbo sa tingub; sila dili makalikay sa lulan, apan ang ilang kaugalingon nangahimong mga binihag.

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they could: Isaiah 36:18, Isaiah 36:19, Isaiah 37:12, Isaiah 37:19, Isaiah 44:17, Isaiah 45:20

but: Judges 18:17, Judges 18:18, Judges 18:24, 2 Samuel 5:21, Jeremiah 43:12, Jeremiah 43:13, Jeremiah 48:7

themselves are: Heb. their soul is

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:30 - my gods 1 Samuel 5:3 - Dagon was 2 Kings 19:18 - have cast 2 Chronicles 25:15 - which could Psalms 96:5 - For Psalms 115:4 - Their idols Isaiah 19:1 - the idols Isaiah 21:9 - all Isaiah 30:6 - burden Isaiah 44:9 - and their Jeremiah 2:28 - But where Jeremiah 48:13 - ashamed Jeremiah 51:44 - I will punish Jeremiah 51:47 - I will Daniel 11:8 - their gods Hosea 10:6 - carried Nahum 1:14 - out Habakkuk 2:18 - profiteth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They stoop, they bow together,.... Either the beasts under their burdens, or other idols besides those mentioned; or rather the Babylonians themselves, who were obliged to submit to the conquerors:

they could not deliver the burdens; the idols could not save themselves from being laid as burdens upon the beasts, any more than they could save their worshippers: so the Targum understands this and the preceding clause of them;

"they are cut off, and cut to pieces together, they could not deliver those that carried them;''

or else the Babylonians are designed, who could not save their gods from being used in this shameful manner:

but themselves are gone into captivity, or "their souls" m; what were as dear to them as their own souls, their idols; to whom also souls may be ascribed by way of derision, being inanimate as well as irrational; and it is not unusual for idols to be said to be carried captive; hence those words of Tertullian, "manent et simulachra caplira": or rather the Babylonians, who went into captivity themselves, and so could not save their idols: thus they who had led captive the Jews are led captive themselves; and thus it will be with mystical Babylon, Revelation 13:10.

m ונפשם "et animae eorum", V. L. Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They stoop - Bel, and Nebo, and all the Babylonian gods (see Isaiah 46:1).

They could not deliver the burden - The word ‘burden’ here, probably means the load of metal, wood, and stone, of which the idols were composed. The gods whom the Babylonians worshipped had not even power to protect the images which were made to represent them, and which had now become a heavy burden to the animals and wains which were carrying them away. They could not rescue them from the hands of the conqueror; and how unable were they, therefore, to defend those who put their trust in them. The Vulgate renders this, ‘They could not deliver him that bare them.’ The Septuagint, ‘You are carrying them like a burden bound on the weary, faint, and hungry; who are all without strength, and unable to escape from battle; and as for them, they are carried away captives!’

But themselves - Margin, as Hebrew, ‘Their soul.’ The sense is, that the gods thus worshipped, so far from being able to defend those who worshipped them, had themselves become captive, and were borne to a distant land.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 46:2. They could not deliver the burden - "They could not deliver their own charge"] That is, their worshippers, who ought to have been borne by them. See the two next verses. The Chaldee and Syriac Versions render it in effect to the same purpose, those that bear them, meaning their worshippers; but how they can render massa in an active sense, I do not understand.

For לא lo, not, ולא velo, and they could not, is the reading of twenty-four of Kennicott's, sixteen of De Rossi's, and two of my own MSS. The added vau gives more elegance to the passage.

But themselves - "Even they themselves"] For ונפשם venaphsham, an ancient MS. has כי נפשם ki naphsham, with more force.