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Darkness to Light Through the Prince of Peace

19 Now when they say to you, “(A)Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people (B)inquire of their God? Should they (C)inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the [a](D)law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because (E)they have no dawn. 21 And they will pass through [b]the land (F)hard-pressed and hungry, and it will be that when they are hungry, they will be angry and curse [c]their king and their God as they face upward. 22 Then they will (G)look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be (H)banished into thick darkness.

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  1. Isaiah 8:20 Or teaching
  2. Isaiah 8:21 Lit it
  3. Isaiah 8:21 Or by their king

19 When they tell you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists, who whisper and mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If people do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them. 21 They will pass through the land, distressed and starving, but when this takes place and they are starving, they will be frustrated, and they will curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward, 22 and then they will look down to the ground, but I tell you, they will see only distress, darkness, and the gloom that brings anguish. They will be banished into thick darkness.

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