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Isaiah 8:12
“Do not call conspiracy
from A Call to Fear God, Isaiah 8:11-18
What it says

Isaiah must not call conspiracy what the people call conspiracy or fear what they fear.

What it is doing

This verse forbids the prophet from absorbing the crowd's panic.

In context

11For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people: 12“Do not call conspiracy 13The LORD of Hosts is the One 14And He will be a sanctuary — 15Many will stumble over these; 16Bind up the testimony 17I will wait for the LORD, 18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.