Isaiah 9:11
Good News Translation
The LORD has stirred up their enemies to attack them.

New Revised Standard Version
So the LORD raised adversaries against them, and stirred up their enemies,

Contemporary English Version
The LORD made their enemies attack them.

New American Bible
So the LORD raises up their foes against them and stirs up their enemies to action—

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:

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And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:

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Isaiah 8:4-7 For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians. . . .

Isaiah 10:9-11 Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus? . . .

Isaiah 17:1-5 The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones. . . .

2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar, king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephthali: and carried them captives into Assyria.

2 Kings 16:9 And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians went up against Damascus, and laid it waste: and he carried away the inhabitants thereof to Cyrene; but Rasin he slew.

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Context
Judgment Against Israel's Pride
10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars. 11And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:12The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.…
Cross References
Isaiah 7:1
And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could not prevail over it.

Isaiah 7:8
But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people:

Isaiah 9:10
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