Isaiah 8:19-22
Revised Standard Version
19 And when they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn. 21 They will pass through the land,[a] greatly distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse[b] their king and their God, and turn their faces upward; 22 and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.
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- Isaiah 8:21 Heb it
- Isaiah 8:21 Or curse by
Isaiah 8:19-22
American Standard Version
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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- Isaiah 8:20 Or, teaching
- Isaiah 8:20 Or, surely according to this word shall they speak for whom there is no morning
- Isaiah 8:21 Or, curse their king and their God
- Isaiah 8:22 Or, and thick darkness shall be driven away. For there etc.
- Isaiah 8:22 Or, in
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