Isaiah 9:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ ‘The bricks have fallen,
    but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycomores have been cut down,
    but we will put cedars in their place.’
¹¹ So the Lord raised adversaries^[a] against them,
    and stirred up their enemies,
¹² the Arameans in the east and the Philistines in the west,
    and they devoured Israel with open mouth.
For all this, his anger has not turned away;
    his hand is stretched out still.