Isa 8:9-10, 43:4, Rom 8:31-37 | ESV | STEP | Be broken , you peoples , and be shattered ; give ear , all you far countries ; strap on your armor and be shattered ; strap on your armor and be shattered .

q 1 Cor. 4:9; 15:30, 31; 2 Cor. 4:10, 11; See Acts 20:24

Isaiah 8:9-10

9 Be broken, ^{▼▼Or Be evil} you peoples, and ^bbe shattered; ^{▼▼Or dismayed}
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, ^dbut it will not stand,
for God ^eis with us. ^{▼▼The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel}

Isaiah 43:4

4 Because you are precious in my eyes,
and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you,
peoples in exchange for your life.

Romans 8:31-37

God’s Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? ^gIf God is for us, who can be ^{▼▼Or who is} against us? 32 ⁱHe who did not spare his own Son but ^jgave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? ^kIt is God who justifies. 34 ^lWho is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— ^mwho is at the right hand of God, ⁿwho indeed is interceding for us. ^{▼▼Or Is it Christ Jesus who died . . . for us?} 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

^p“For your sake ^qwe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than ^rconquerors through ^shim who loved us.