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10 Make a plan,[a] but it will be frustrated!
    Speak a word, but it will not stand,
        for God is with us!

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11 For Yahweh said this to me while his hand weighed heavily on me,[b]
    and he warned me not to walk[c] in the way of this people, saying,
12 “You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy,
    and you must not share its fear,[d] and you must not be in dread.

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  1. Isaiah 8:10 Literally “Plan counsel”
  2. Isaiah 8:11 Literally “with the strength of the hand”
  3. Isaiah 8:11 Literally “instructed me from walking”
  4. Isaiah 8:12 Literally “fear its fear”

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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  1. Isaiah 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel