Isaiah 8:11

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

Key Reflection

The people of Isaiah's time were faced with political and religious turmoil, as various nations sought to manipulate alliances against Judah. This verse asserts that any plans or words aimed at harming Judah would ultimately fail because God was supporting them. The original audience would have recognized this as a promise of divine protection, reassuring them that despite external pressures, their security lay in adhering to God's will.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For the Lord spake thus -Spake that which immediately follows in the next verse. Warned him not to Unite in the alliance with foreign kingdoms which the nation was about forming. With a strong hand -Margin, ‘With strength of hand.’ That is, when the hand of God urged me. A strong prophetic impulse is often represented as being produced by God’s laying his hand on the prophet; or by his being thus, as it were, urged or impelled to it;Ezekiel 3:14: ‘The hand of Jehovah was strong upon me;’2 Kings 3:15: ‘And it came to pass, that when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him;’Jerem

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