Isaiah 9:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ The Lord sent a word against Jacob,
    and it fell on Israel;
⁹ and all the people knew it—
    Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria—
    but in pride and arrogance of heart they said:
¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen,
    but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
    but we will put cedars in their place.”