Isaiah 9:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ and all the people knew it—
    Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria—
    but in pride and arrogance of heart they said:
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,