Isaiah 8:10
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New International Version (©2011)
Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless. Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed. For God is with us!"

English Standard Version (©2001)
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Take counsel together, but it will all be for nothing; go ahead and talk, but it will all be for nothing, for God is with us."

NET Bible (©2006)
Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Make plans for battle, but they will never succeed. Give orders, but they won't be carried out, because God is with us!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

American King James Version
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

American Standard Version
Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.

Darby Bible Translation
Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for łGod is with us.

English Revised Version
Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

World English Bible
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

Young's Literal Translation
Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:9-16 The prophet challenges the enemies of the Jews. Their efforts would be vain, and themselves broken to pieces. It concerns us, in time of trouble, to watch against all such fears as put us upon crooked courses for our own security. The believing fear of God preserves against the disquieting fear of man. If we thought rightly of the greatness and glory of God, we should see all the power of our enemies restrained. The Lord, who will be a Sanctuary to those who trust in him, will be a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offence, to those who make the creature their fear and their hope. If the things of God be an offence to us, they will undo us. The apostle quotes this as to all who persisted in unbelief of the gospel of Christ, 1Pe 2:8. The crucified Emmanuel, who was and is a Stumbling-stone and Rock of offence to unbelieving Jews, is no less so to thousands who are called Christians. The preaching of the cross is foolishness in their esteem; his doctrines and precepts offend them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - Take counsel together; literally, devise a device; i.e. form some plan, even the cleverest possible, against God's people, and the result will be utter failure. It shall not stand (comp. Isaiah 7:7). For God is with us. In the Hebrew, ki 'immanu-El, "for with us (is) God" words declarative of the true meaning of the name which God had made a sign to his people (Isaiah 7:14). It was his being "with them" that could alone save them from their enemies.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Take counsel together,.... As Rezin king of Syria, and Remaliah's son, did against Judah, Isaiah 7:5,

it shall come to nought; for, though they came up against it, they could not overcome it, 2 Kings 16:5,

speak the word; what they intended, resolved upon, and determined to do; this is the issue of their counsels:

and it shall not stand; See Gill on Isaiah 7:7,

for God is with us; which is the interpretation of the name "Immanuel": and which shows that the reason why the consultations and resolutions of the enemies of Judah could not take place, so as to destroy it, was because Immanuel, the virgin's son, was to be born in it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. the word—of command, for the assault of Jerusalem.

God is with us—"Immanuel" implies this (Nu 14:9; Ps 46:7).

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Assyrian Invasion Prophesied
…8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel. 9Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces. 10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Matthew 1:23 "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us").
Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Genesis 21:22 At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
Job 5:12 He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Psalm 33:10 The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
Isaiah 7:7 Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'It will not take place, it will not happen,
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Isaiah 8:8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel!"
Isaiah 28:18 Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.
Isaiah 43:5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.
Jeremiah 42:11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you and will save you and deliver you from his hands.
Jeremiah 46:28 Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you," declares the LORD. "Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished."