Isaiah 8:6-10

Contemporary English Version

⁶These people have refused the gentle waters of Shiloah^[a] and have gladly gone over to the side of King Rezin and King Pekah. ⁷Now I will send the king of Assyria against them with his powerful army, which will attack like the mighty Euphrates River overflowing its banks. ⁸Enemy soldiers will cover Judah like a flood reaching up to your neck.

But God is with us.^[b]
He will spread his wings
    and protect our land.^[c]
⁹All of you foreign nations,
go ahead and prepare for war,
    but you will be crushed.
¹⁰Get together and make plans,
but you will fail
    because God is with us.

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Footnotes

8.6 Shiloah: The canal that brought water from Gihon Spring to Jerusalem.
8.8 God is with us: Here and in verse 10 this translates the Hebrew word “Immanuel” (see 7.14).
8.8 But … land: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.