6. These people have refused the gentle waters of Shiloah and have gladly gone over to the side of King Rezin and King Pekah.
7. Now I will send the king of Assyria against them with his powerful army, which will attack like the mighty River Euphrates overflowing its banks.
8. Enemy soldiers will cover Judah like a flood reaching up to your neck.But God is with us.He will spread his wingsand protect our land.
9. All you foreign nations,go ahead and prepare for war,but you will be crushed.
10. Get together and make plans,but you will failbecause God is with us.
11. The Lord took hold of me with his powerful hand and said:I'm warning you! Don't act like these people.
12. Don't call something a rebellious plot, just because they do, and don't be afraid of something, just because they are.
13. I am the one you should fear and respect. I am the holy God, the Lord All-Powerful!
14-15. Run to me for protection. I am a rock that will make both Judah and Israel stumble and break their bones. I am a trap that will catch the people of Jerusalem—they will be captured and dragged away.
16. My message and my teachings are to be sealed and given to my followers.
17. Meanwhile, I patiently trust the Lord, even though he is no longer pleased with Israel.
18. My children and I are warning signs to Israel from the Lord All-Powerful, who lives on Mount Zion.
19. Someone may say to you, “Go to the fortune-tellers who make soft chirping sounds or ask the spirits of the dead. After all, a nation ought to be able to ask its own gods
20. what it should do.”None of those who talk like that will live to see the light of day!