Band together,[a] peoples, and be broken;
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for war, and be broken;
prepare for war, and be broken.
10 Devise a plan; it will fail.(A)
Make a prediction; it will not happen.
For God is with us.[b](B)

The Lord of Armies, the Only Refuge

11 For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep[c] me from going the way of this people:(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:9 Or Raise the war cry, or Be shattered
  2. 8:10 Hb Immanuel
  3. 8:11 DSS; MT reads instruct

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