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10 Take counsel together,
    but it will all be for nothing;
go ahead and talk,
    but[a] it will all be for nothing,[b]
        for God is with us.”[c]

Waiting on God

11 For[d] this is what the Lord spoke to me, as his forceful hand was resting on me, and as he was warning me not to live the way this people were living:[e]

12 “Don’t call conspiracy everything
    that this people calls conspiracy,
and don’t fear what they fear,
    or live in terror.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:10 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsae LXX lack but
  2. Isaiah 8:10 Lit. it won’t stand
  3. Isaiah 8:10 I.e. a word play on the name Immanuel; cf. 7:14, 8:8
  4. Isaiah 8:11 So 1QIsaa 4QIsae MT; 4QIsaf LXX Syr lack For
  5. Isaiah 8:11 Lit. not to walk in the way of this people