Isaiah 8:10

Updated Bible Version

Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Devise counsel, but it will be thwarted;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."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take your counsell together, yet shall your counsell come to naught: determine the matter, yet shall it not prosper: for God is with vs.

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

New King James Version
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;Speak the word, but it will not stand,For God is with us." [fn]

Literal Translation
Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated; speak a word, and it shall not rise; for God is with us.

Easy-to-Read Version
Make your plans for the fight. Your plans will be defeated. Give orders to your armies, but your orders will be useless, because God is with us!

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

King James Version (1611)
Take counsell together, and it shall come to nought: speake the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with vs.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
take youre councel together, yet must youre councel come to nought: go in honde withal, yet shal it not prospere. Excepte Emanuel: (that is God) be with

Amplified Bible
"Take counsel together [against Judah], but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us (Immanuel)."

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.

Bible in Basic English
Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: 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.

New English Translation
Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

Contemporary English Version
Get together and make plans, but you will fail because God is with us.

Complete Jewish Bible
devise a plan, but it will come to nothing; say anything you like, but it won't happen; because God is with us .

Geneva Bible (1587)
Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.

George Lamsa Translation
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.

Hebrew Names Version
Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.

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

New Life Bible
Make a plan, but it will come to nothing. Give your plan, but it will not be done. For God is with us."

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whatsoever counsel ye shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God 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.

Berean Standard Bible
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us."

New Revised Standard
Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Determine a plan, - and it shall be frustrated, - Speak a word, and it shall not stand, For With-us-is-GOD!

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.

Lexham English Bible
Make a plan, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!

English Standard Version
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
"Devise a plan, but it will fail; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us."

New Century Version
Make your plans for the fight, but they will be defeated. Give orders to your armies, but they will be useless, because God is with us.

Good News Translation
Make your plans! But they will never succeed. Talk all you want to! But it is all useless, because God is with us.

Christian Standard Bible®
Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
take ye councel, and it schal be destried; speke ye a word, and it schal not be doon, for God is with vs.

Revised Standard Version
Take counsel together, but it will come to nought; speak a word, but 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!'

Contextual Overview

⁹ Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. ¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. ¹¹ For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he turned me away [so as] not to walk in the way of this people, saying, ¹² Don't say, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither be afraid of their fear, nor be in dread [thereof]. ¹³ Yahweh of hosts, you shall sanctify him; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ¹⁴ And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

counsel: Isaiah 7:5-7, 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 17:4, 2 Samuel 17:23, Job 5:12, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 46:1, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 83:3-18, Proverbs 21:30, Lamentations 3:37, Nahum 1:9-12, Acts 5:38, Acts 5:39

for God: Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 41:10, Deuteronomy 20:1, Joshua 1:5, 2 Chronicles 13:12, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:8, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 28:20, Romans 8:13, Romans 8:31, 1 John 4:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:22 - God Genesis 28:15 - I am Genesis 39:2 - the Lord Numbers 14:9 - the Lord Numbers 23:21 - the Lord Deuteronomy 1:30 - he shall Deuteronomy 7:21 - the Lord Deuteronomy 31:8 - he will be Joshua 9:2 - gathered Joshua 10:4 - and help Joshua 10:5 - General Joshua 10:42 - because Judges 1:19 - the Lord Judges 6:33 - Then all Judges 7:12 - grasshoppers 2 Samuel 3:6 - Abner 2 Samuel 5:10 - the Lord 2 Samuel 8:5 - came 2 Samuel 10:6 - Syrians of Bethrehob 2 Samuel 10:15 - gathered 2 Samuel 16:20 - Give counsel 2 Samuel 17:14 - to defeat 1 Kings 1:37 - As the 1 Kings 8:57 - General 1 Kings 18:27 - Elijah 2 Kings 6:8 - took 2 Kings 6:16 - they that be 2 Kings 16:5 - but could not 1 Chronicles 11:9 - for 1 Chronicles 18:5 - to help 2 Chronicles 14:9 - Zerah 2 Chronicles 17:3 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 20:1 - the children of Moab 2 Chronicles 20:17 - for the Lord 2 Chronicles 25:8 - be strong 2 Chronicles 32:8 - with us Nehemiah 4:8 - all Nehemiah 4:15 - God Job 15:25 - strengtheneth Job 17:11 - purposes Psalms 14:5 - God Psalms 21:11 - are not Psalms 23:4 - for thou Psalms 35:3 - stop Psalms 46:6 - heathen Psalms 56:9 - for Psalms 83:5 - For Psalms 124:1 - The Lord Isaiah 7:7 - General Isaiah 28:18 - your covenant Isaiah 32:2 - a man Isaiah 33:11 - conceive Isaiah 37:22 - hath despised Jeremiah 15:20 - for Jeremiah 19:7 - I will make Jeremiah 30:11 - I am Jeremiah 46:3 - General Jeremiah 46:28 - for I am Jeremiah 51:12 - the standard Ezekiel 17:9 - Shall it Ezekiel 34:30 - General Ezekiel 38:7 - General Ezekiel 38:9 - all thy Joel 3:9 - wake Amos 5:5 - come Amos 5:14 - and so Obadiah 1:16 - and they shall be Acts 18:10 - I am Acts 23:12 - certain Philippians 4:9 - with 2 Thessalonians 3:16 - The Lord be

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.

Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

Genesis 8:12
And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return again to him anymore.

Psalms 40:1
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for Yahweh; And he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for Yahweh, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 26:8
Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Yahweh, we have waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.

Romans 8:25
But if we hope for that which we don't see, [then] we wait for it with patience.

Gill's Notes on the 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; 2 Kings 16:5- ::

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take counsel together - This is an address to the same foreign nations. It refers to the designs which they would form to destroy the Jewish state.

Speak the word - That is, give the command - to overturn the nation of the Jews.

It shall not stand - It shall not be accomplished.

For God is with us - Hebrew ‘For Immanuel.’ It indicates the confidence of the prophet in view of the promise and the pledge. His reliance was there. Though the enemies were strong and mighty; though the confederacy was formidable; yet his simple reliance was in the name Immanuel! In this he had confidence, in spite of all the violent efforts and designs of the foes of Judah; see Numbers 14:9 :

Only, rebel not ye against the Lord:

Neither fear ye the people of the land;

For they are bread for us;

Their defense is departed from them,

And Jehovah is with us,

Fear thom not.

See also Psalms 46:6-7 :

The heathen raged,

The kingdoms were moved.

He uttered his voice, the earth dissolved.

Jehovah of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge.