9. Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.
10. Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'
11. For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,
12. `Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.
13. Jehovah of Hosts--Him ye do sanctify, And He [is] your Fear, and He your Dread,
14. And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15. And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
16. Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.
17. And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.
18. Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, [Are] for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.
19. And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? --For the living unto the dead!
20. To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'