⁹ Raise the war cry,^[a](A) you nations, and be shattered!^(B)
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare^(C) for battle, and be shattered!
    Prepare for battle, and be shattered!

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)

¹⁷ I will wait^(A) for the Lord,
    who is hiding^(B) his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.^(C)