Isaiah 46

^{1 a} These were the chief idoles of Babylon.

^{1 b} Because thei were of golde and siluer, the Medes & Persians caryed them away.

^{1 !} The destruction of Babylon and of their idoles.

^{2 c} The beasts that caryed the idoles, fel downe vnder their burden.

^{2 d} He derideth the idoles, which had nether soule nor sense.

^{3 e} He sheweth the difference betwene the idoles and the true God: for thei must be caryed of others, but God himself caryeth his, as {Deut. 32,11}

^{3 !} He calleth the Jewes to the consideracion of his workes.

^{4 f} Seing I haue begotten you, I wil nourish and preserue you for euer.

^{5 g} The people of God, seing their owne calamitie & the florishing estate of the Babylonians, shulde be tempted to thinke that their God was not so mightie as the idoles of their enemies: therefore he describeth the original of all the idoles, to make them to be abhorred of all men: shewing that the moste that can be spoken in their commendacion is but to put prue them vile, {Bar. 6,25}.

^{8 h} Become wise, meaning that allo idolaters are without wit or sense, like mad men.

^{11 k} Him by whome I haue appointed to execute tha, which I haue determined.

^{11 i} That is, Cyrus, which shal come, as swift as a birde and fight against Babylon.

^{12 l} Which by your indredulitie wolde let the performance of my promes.

^{13 m} We sheweth that mans incredulitie can not abolish the promes of God, {Rom, 3.3}.