Isaiah 8:11-18

New Living Translation

¹² “Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do,
    and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.
¹³ Make the Lord of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life.
    He is the one you should fear.
He is the one who should make you tremble.
¹⁴     He will keep you safe.
But to Israel and Judah
    he will be a stone that makes people stumble,
    a rock that makes them fall.
And for the people of Jerusalem
    he will be a trap and a snare.
¹⁵ Many will stumble and fall,
    never to rise again.
    They will be snared and captured.”

¹⁶ Preserve the teaching of God;
    entrust his instructions to those who follow me.
¹⁷ I will wait for the Lord,
    who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob.
    I will put my hope in him.