9. Unite yourselves, peoples, and be shattered!Listen, all distant places of the earth!Prepare to be shattered!Prepare to be shattered!
10. Create a plan, but be frustrated!Speak a word, but it won’t stand, for God is with us.
11. The Lord spoke to me, taking hold of me and warning me not to walk in the way of this people:
12. Don’t call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy. Don’t fear what they fear, and don’t be terrified.
13. It is the Lord of heavenly forces whom you should hold sacred, whom you should fear, and whom you should hold in awe.
14. God will become a sanctuary—but he will be a stone to trip over and a rock to stumble on for the two houses of Israel;a trap and a snare for those living in Jerusalem.
15. Many of them will stumble and fall,and be broken, snared, and captured.
16. Bind up the testimony; seal up the teaching among my disciples.