3 “Listen to Me, house of Jacob,all the remnant of the house of Israel,who have been sustained from the womb,carried along since birth.
4 I will be the same until your old age, and I will bear you up when you turn gray.I have made you, and I will carry you;I will bear and save you.
5 “Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to?Who will you measure Me with,so that we should be like each other?
6 Those who pour out their bags of goldand weigh out silver on scales —they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god.Then they kneel and bow down to it.
7 They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands;it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;it saves no one from his trouble.
8 “Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
9 Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other;I am God, and no one is like Me.