Isaiah 8:11-18

International Standard Version

¹² “Don’t call conspiracy everything
    that this people calls conspiracy,
and don’t fear what they fear,
    or live in terror.
¹³ The Lord of the Heavenly Armies—
    he’s the one you are to regard as holy.
Let him be the one whom you fear,
    and let him be the one before whom you stand in terror!
¹⁴ Then he will be a sanctuary,
    but for both houses of Israel
he’ll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself,
    a rock one stumbles over,
        a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem.
¹⁵ Many will stumble on them;
    They’ll fall and be broken;
        They’ll be snared and captured.

¹⁶ “Bind up the testimony,
    and seal up the teaching among my disciples.
¹⁷ I’ll wait for the Lord,
    who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob,
        and I’ll put my trust in him.
¹⁸ Watch out! I and the children
    whom the Lord has given me
are a sign and a wonder^[c] in Israel
    from the Lord of the Heavenly Armies,
        who resides on Mount Zion.”