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and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel.

“Huddle together, you nations, and be terrified.
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!
    Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!
10 Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless.
    Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed.
    For God is with us![a]

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  1. 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel!

and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,(A)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings(B) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel[a]!”(C)

Raise the war cry,[b](D) you nations, and be shattered!(E)
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare(F) for battle, and be shattered!
    Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;(G)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,(H)
    for God is with us.[c](I)

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  1. Isaiah 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.
  2. Isaiah 8:9 Or Do your worst
  3. Isaiah 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel

    This Mesopotamian power will pour into Judah, rise and pass through,
        wreaking near-fatal havoc.
    And its reach will extend over all your land.

God, be with us.

Go ahead, make your alliances, you peoples, yet you’ll be crushed.
    Listen closely, even if you’re far away:
Get ready for battle—get ready to be battered;
    get ready for battle—get ready to be shattered.
10 Go ahead, devise your plans, but they will fail;
    your proclamations won’t matter because God is with us.

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