⁶ “These people refuse to accept
    the slow-moving waters of the pool of Shiloah
and are terrified of Rezin
    and Pekah son of Remaliah.
⁷ So I, the Lord, will bring
    the king of Assyria and all his power against them,
    like a powerful flood of water from the Euphrates River.
The Assyrians will be like water rising over the banks of the river,
    flowing over the land.
⁸ That water will flow into Judah and pass through it,
    rising to Judah’s throat.
Immanuel, this army will spread its wings like a bird
    until it covers your whole country.”

⁹ Be broken, all you nations,
    and be smashed to pieces.
Listen, all you faraway countries.
    Prepare for battle and be smashed to pieces!
    Prepare for battle and be smashed to pieces!
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.

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.
¹³ But remember that the Lord All-Powerful is holy.
    He is the one you should fear;
    he is the one you should dread.
¹⁴ Then he will be a place of safety for you.
    But for the two families of Israel,
he will be like a stone that causes people to stumble,
    like a rock that makes them fall.
He will be like a trap for the people of Jerusalem,
    and he will catch them in his trap.
¹⁵ Many people will fall over this rock.
    They will fall and be broken;
    they will be trapped and caught.”

¹⁶ Make an agreement.
    Seal up the teaching while my followers are watching.
¹⁷ I will wait for the Lord to help us,
    the Lord who is ashamed of the family of Israel.
I will wait for him.