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10 ·Make your plans for the fight [Devise your strategy],
    but ·they will be defeated [it will be thwarted].
·Give orders to your armies [L Speak a command/word],
    but ·they will be useless [L it will not stand],
because ·God is with us [L Immanuel].

Warnings to Isaiah

11 [L For] The Lord spoke to me with his ·great power [L strong hand] and warned me not to ·follow the lead [L walk in the way] of ·the rest of the [L this] people. He said,
12 “·People are saying that others make plans against them,
    but you should not believe them [L Don’t call ‘conspiracy’ everything this people calls ‘conspiracy’].
Don’t be afraid of what they fear;
    do not dread those things.

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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