9. Be broken, all you nations.Be smashed to pieces.Listen, all you faraway countries.Prepare for battle and be smashed to pieces!Prepare for battle and be smashed to pieces!
10. Make your plans for the fight.But your plans will be defeated.Give orders to your armies.But your orders will be useless.This is because God is with us.
11. The Lord spoke to me with his great power. He warned me not to follow the lead of the rest of the people. The Lord said,
12. “People are saying that others make plans against them.You should not believe those things.Don’t be afraid of the things they fear.Do not dread those things.
13. But remember that the Lord of heaven’s armies is holy.He is the one you should fear.He is the one you should dread.
14. Then he would be a place of safety for you.But for the two families of Israel,he will be like a stone that causes people to stumble.He will be like a rock that makes them fall.He will be like a trap for the people of Jerusalem.He will catch them in his trap.
15. Many people will fall over this rock.They will fall and be broken.They will be trapped and caught.”
16. Make an agreement.Seal up the teaching while my followers are watching.
17. I will wait for the Lord to help us.The Lord is ashamed of the family of Israel.I will trust the Lord.