10 Take counsel together, yet, it shall be brought to naught: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with us.

11 For the Lord spake thus to me, in taking [a]of mine hand, and taught me, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

12 Say ye not, A [b]confederacy, to all them to whom this people saith a confederacy, neither fear you [c]their fear, nor be afraid of them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:11 To encourage me that I should not shrink for the infidelity of this people, and so neglect mine office.
  2. Isaiah 8:12 Consent not ye that are godly, to the league and friendship that this people seek with strangers and idolaters.
  3. Isaiah 8:12 Meaning, that they should not fear the thing that they feared, which have no hope in God.

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