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10 Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless.
    Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed.
    For God is with us![a]

A Call to Trust the Lord

11 The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,

12 “Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do,
    and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.

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  1. 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel!

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