Isaiah 8:19–9:1

¹⁹But people will tell you to ask for messages from fortune tellers and mediums, who chirp and mutter. They will say, “After all, people should ask for messages from the spirits and consult the dead on behalf of the living.”

²⁰You are to answer them, “Listen to what the Lord is teaching you! Don’t listen to mediums—what they tell you cannot keep trouble away.”^r

A Time Of Trouble

²¹The people will wander through the land, discouraged and hungry. In their hunger and their anger they will curse their king and their God. They may look up to the sky ²²or stare at the ground, but they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven.

9^*There will be no way for them to escape from this time of trouble.