Isaiah 8:10
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.

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

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

New American Bible
Form a plan, it shall be thwarted; make a resolve, it shall not be carried out, 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.

counsel

Isaiah 7:5-7 Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: . . .

2 Samuel 15:31 And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the counsel of Achitophel.

2 Samuel 17:4,23 And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the ancients of Israel. . . .

Job 5:12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Psalm 2:1,2 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Psalm 33:10,11 The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes. . . .

Psalm 46:1,7 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. [2] Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly. . . .

Psalm 83:3 They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.

Lamentations 3:37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Nahum 1:9-12 What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction. . . .

Acts 5:38,39 And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought: . . .

for God

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

Isaiah 9:6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

Deuteronomy 20:1 If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and chariots, and the numbers of the enemy's army greater than thine, thou shalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Joshua 1:5 No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.

2 Chronicles 13:12 Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good for you.

2 Chronicles 33:7,8 He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever. . . .

Psalm 46:7,11 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. . . .

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Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Isaiah 28:20 For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

Romans 8:13,31 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. . . .

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Romans 4:4 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt.

Context
Assyrian Invasion Prophesied
9Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome. 10Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.
Cross References
Matthew 1:23
Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

Genesis 21:22
At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army, said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.

Job 5:12
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Psalm 33:10
The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.

Isaiah 7:7
Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

Isaiah 8:8
And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

Isaiah 28:18
And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.

Isaiah 43:5
Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west.

Jeremiah 42:11
Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

Jeremiah 46:28
And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.

Joel 3:9
Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare war, raise up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.

Isaiah 8:9
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