Isaiah 9:8-12

English Standard Version

⁸ The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,
    and it will fall on Israel;
⁹ and all the people will know,
    ^(A)Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
    who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
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.”
¹¹ But the Lord raises the adversaries of Rezin against him,
    and stirs up his enemies.
^12 (B)The Syrians on the east and ^(C)the Philistines on the west
    devour Israel with open mouth.
^(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.