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10 Make your plans for the fight,
    but they will be defeated.
Give orders to your armies,
    but they will be useless,
because God is with us.

Warnings to Isaiah

11 The Lord spoke to me with his great power and warned me not to follow the lead of the rest of the people. He said,

12 “People are saying that others make plans against them,
    but you should not believe them.
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