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10 Make your plans for the fight.
    Your plans will be defeated.
Give orders to your armies,
    but your orders will be useless,
    because God is with us![a]

Warnings to Isaiah

11 The Lord spoke to me with his great power and warned[b] me not to be like these people. He said, 12 “Don’t think there is a plan against you just because the people say there is. Don’t be afraid of what they fear. Don’t let them frighten you!”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:10 God is with us In Hebrew this is like the name Immanuel.
  2. Isaiah 8:11 warned Or “prevented.”

10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;(A)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,(B)
    for God is with us.[a](C)

11 This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me,(D) warning me not to follow(E) the way of this people:

12 “Do not call conspiracy(F)
    everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,(G)
    and do not dread it.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel