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Isaiah 8:9-11
International Standard Version
Isaiah 8:9-11
International Standard Version
9 “Band together,[a] you peoples,
but be shattered!
Listen, all you distant countries!
Strap on your armor,
but be shattered.[b]
10 Take counsel together,
but it will all be for nothing;
go ahead and talk,
but[c] it will all be for nothing,[d]
for God is with us.”[e]
Waiting on God
11 For[f] this is what the Lord spoke to me, as his forceful hand was resting on me, and as he was warning me not to live the way this people were living:[g]
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- Isaiah 8:9 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsae 4QIsaf LXX read Learn this; or Know this
- Isaiah 8:9 So 1QIsaa; MT adds a second strap on your armor but be shattered; cf. LXX
- Isaiah 8:10 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsae LXX lack but
- Isaiah 8:10 Lit. it won’t stand
- Isaiah 8:10 I.e. a word play on the name Immanuel; cf. 7:14, 8:8
- Isaiah 8:11 So 1QIsaa 4QIsae MT; 4QIsaf LXX Syr lack For
- Isaiah 8:11 Lit. not to walk in the way of this people
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