Bel has bent down, Nebo is stooping;
their images have come to belong to creatures, to animals.
The things carried by you are loaded as a burden for weary ones;
they’ve stooped, they’ve bent down together.
They couldn’t save the burden;
they themselves have gone into captivity.
Listen to me, Ya’aqob’s household,
all the remainder of Yisra’el’s household,
Who’ve been loaded from birth,
who’ve been carried from the womb.
Even until old age I will be the one;
even until grey-headedness
I will be the one who will bear. I’m the one who made,
I’m the one who carries; I’m the one who bears, and I will save.
To whom can you compare me so I should be similar,
or liken me so we are comparable?
People who lavish gold from a purse,
or weigh out silver by the rod,
Hire a smith so he may make it into a god
to which they may fall down, bow low.
They carry it on their shoulder, bear it,
so they can set it down in its position and it can stand;
from its place it won’t move away.
Yes, someone can cry out to it, but it doesn’t answer;
it doesn’t deliver him from the pressure on him.

Keep this in mind, be strong,
bring it back to mind, you rebels,
Keep in mind earlier events of old,
because I am God and there is no other.
I am God and there is none like me,
telling of the outcome from the beginning,
And from beforehand things that haven’t been done,
saying ‘My counsel will arise, all I want I shall do’,
Calling from the east a shriek,
from a far country the person in my counsel.
I both spoke and will also bring it about;
I formed and will also do it.
Listen to me, you sturdy of mind,
you who are far away from faithfulness.
I have brought faithfulness near; it’s not far away,
and my deliverance won’t delay.
I shall put deliverance in Tsiyyon,
my magnificence for Yisra’el.

Goldingay, John; Goldingay, John; Wright, Tom; Wright, Tom. The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

Lord God,
your feed us with the living bread from heaven.
You renew our faith
increase our hope
and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ
who is the true and living bread
and live by every word that comes from your mouth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.