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19 When they say to you, “Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek after their God? Should they consult the dead for the living? 20 To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 21 They shall pass through the land hard-pressed and hungry; when they are hungry, they shall be furious and curse their king and their God as they look upward. 22 Then they shall look to the earth and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish. And they shall be driven away into darkness.

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19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? 20 To the [a]law and to the testimony! [b]if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. 21 And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and [c]curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward: 22 and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; [d]and [e]into thick darkness they shall be driven away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:20 Or, teaching
  2. Isaiah 8:20 Or, surely according to this word shall they speak for whom there is no morning
  3. Isaiah 8:21 Or, curse their king and their God
  4. Isaiah 8:22 Or, and thick darkness shall be driven away. For there etc.
  5. Isaiah 8:22 Or, in