Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Study Note
Study Note
The defiant pronouncement 'counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us' (Immanuel) answers the political conspiracies threatening Judah in Isaiah's own day. The phrase 'Immanuel' (God with us) first appears in Isaiah 7:14 as a sign to Ahaz, and here functions as both a battle cry and a theological anchor. Matthew 1:23 cites Isaiah 7:14 as fulfilled in the birth of Jesus, but this verse shows that Immanuel is also a statement of present divine protection against human political scheming — a theme that runs through both Testaments.
Other Translations
Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'
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.
Cross References
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, …
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was …
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, …
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home …
And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against …
And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God …
Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for …
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?