¹⁹When they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,”^x shouldn’t a people inquire of their God?^A Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?^y ²⁰Go to God’s instruction and testimony!^z If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

²¹They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. ²²They will look toward the earth^aa and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE

9Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like that of the former times when he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali.^ab But in the future he will bring honor to the way of the sea, to the land east of the Jordan, and to Galilee of the nations.

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Footnotes

AOr gods

Cross references

x Lv 20:6; 2Kg 21:6; 23:24; Is 19:3; 29:4; 47:12–13
y 1Sm 28:8–11
z Is 1:10; Lk 16:29
aa Is 5:30; 59:9; Jr 13:16; Am 5:18,20; Zph 1:14–15
ab Mt 4:15