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;(D)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,(E)
    for God is with us.[b](F)

11 This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me,(G) warning me not to follow(H) the way of this people:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:9 Or Do your worst
  2. Isaiah 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel

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