Isaiah 8:11-19

Common English Bible

¹¹The Lord spoke to me, taking hold of me and warning me not to walk in the way of this people: ¹²Don’t call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy. Don’t fear what they fear, and don’t be terrified. ¹³It is the Lord of heavenly forces whom you should hold sacred, whom you should fear, and whom you should hold in awe.

¹⁴God 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.
¹⁵Many of them will stumble and fall,
    and be broken, snared, and captured.

¹⁶Bind up the testimony; seal up the teaching among my disciples. ¹⁷I will wait for the Lord, who has hidden his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in God. ¹⁸Look! I and the children the Lord gave me are signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of heavenly forces, who lives on Mount Zion.

¹⁹If they say to you: “Consult the ghosts and the spirits that chirp and mutter. (Shouldn’t a people consult its gods?) Consult the dead on behalf of the living

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