Although there is terrible trouble ahead, Isaiah foresees that there will be at least a few people who survive it. He's got them in mind in these words. He doesn't want them believing the conspiracy theories, getting panicked by wild talk, he wants them to stay secure in God.
So he reminds his hearers that just as God has got his strong hand on him personally, just as he and his family have become living signs to God's love, so God will be available like a strong tower, like a rock or a fortress. Some people will dash themselves against this rock, and be smashed, like a ship out of control in a stormy sea. They've allowed themselves to be blown this way and that by contradictory and untrustworthy voices, like asking the dead for their opinion of the living (what do they know about it?), like believing conspiracy theories.
Don't fill yourselves with random fears, he says. Fear God, and you need not fear anything else.
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