Is 8:10 "Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us."
Is 8:11 ¶ For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Is 8:12 "You are not to say, 'It is a conspiracy!' In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it.
Is 8:13 "It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.
Is 8:14 "Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Is 8:15 "Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught."
Is 8:16 ¶ Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Is 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Is 8:19 ¶ When they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should theyconsult the dead on behalf of the living?
Is 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Is 8:21 They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.
Is 8:22 Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.
Is 9:1 But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.
Is 9:2 The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.
Is 9:3 You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Is 9:4 For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.
Is 9:5 For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
Is 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Is 9:7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.
Is 9:8 ¶ The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.