19 When they say to you, “(A)Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should a people not (B)consult their God? Should they (C)consult the dead in behalf of the living? 20 To the [a](D)Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak in accordance with this word, it is because (E)they have no dawn. 21 They will pass through [b]the land (F)dejected and hungry, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will become enraged 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)driven away into 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 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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  1. 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”
  2. Isaiah 8:21 That is, the nation
  3. Isaiah 8:21 That is, the land
  4. Isaiah 8:21 Or “God”