Isaiah 9:9-11

Lexham English Bible

⁹ And all of the people knew it,
    Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria
in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,
¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stone.
    The sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
¹¹ So Yahweh strengthened the adversaries of Rezin^[a] against him,
    and he provoked his enemies—