Isaiah 8:19-22
Christian Standard Bible
19 When they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,”(A) shouldn’t a people inquire of their God?[a] Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?(B) 20 Go to God’s instruction and testimony!(C) If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.
21 They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. 22 They will look toward the earth(D) and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.
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- 8:19 Or gods
Isaiah 8:19-22
Lexham English Bible
19 Now if they tell you, “Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living, 20 for teaching and for testimony?” surely they who speak like this have no dawn.[a]
21 And it[b] will pass through it[c] distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods,[d] and it will face upwar 22 or look to the earth. But look! Distress and darkness, the gloom of affliction! And it will be thrust into darkness!
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- Isaiah 8:20 Literally “if not, they say like this word that there is no dawn for him,” which could also mean “if not, let them say a word like this: that there is no dawn for him”
- Isaiah 8:21 That is, the nation
- Isaiah 8:21 That is, the land
- Isaiah 8:21 Or “God”
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