Isaiah 8:10

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.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Devise a plan; it will fail.Make a prediction; it will not happen.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.

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.

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.

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)."

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.

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.

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

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 .

Darby Translation
Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: 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!

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.

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.

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

Literal Translation
Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated; speak a word, and it shall not rise; 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Update 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.

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!

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]

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."

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.

Young's Literal Translation
Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

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."

Contextual Overview

⁹ Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed; give ear, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed. ¹⁰ Take counsel together, but it will come to nought; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us. ¹¹ For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: ¹² "Do not call conspiracy all that this people call conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. ¹³ But the LORD of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ¹⁴ And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And many shall stumble thereon; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and 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 in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."

Genesis 7:10
And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 8:12
Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

Psalms 40:1
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Isaiah 26:8
In the path of thy judgments, O LORD, we wait for thee; thy memorial name is the desire of our soul.

Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, 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.