🕊️WEB · Isaiah 8:11
What does Isaiah 8:11 mean?
"For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,"
— Isaiah 8:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us.”
For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
“Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.
Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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