And shall break into Judah, and shall overflow, and pass through, and shall come up to the [a]neck, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O [b]Immanuel.

Gather together on heaps, O ye [c]people, and ye shall be broken in pieces, and hearken all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:8 It shall be ready to drown them.
  2. Isaiah 8:8 He speaketh this to Messiah, or Christ, in whom the faithful were comforted, and who would not suffer his Church to be destroyed utterly.
  3. Isaiah 8:9 To wit, ye that are enemies to the Church, as the Assyrians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

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