19 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the (A)mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of (B)the dead on behalf of the living? 20 (C)To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no (D)dawn. 21 They will pass through the land,[a] greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against[b] their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. 22 (E)And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into (F)thick darkness.

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  1. Isaiah 8:21 Hebrew it
  2. Isaiah 8:21 Or speak contemptuously by

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