Isaiah 8:9-16

9Band together, peoples, and be broken; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for war, and be broken; prepare for war, and be broken.

10Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us.

11For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep me from going the way of this people:

12Do not call everything a conspiracy that these people say is a conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not be terrified.

13You are to regard only the Lord of Armies as holy. Only he should be feared; only he should be held in awe.

14He will be a sanctuary; but for the two houses of Israel, he will be a stone to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be snared and captured.

16Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples.