¹⁹Now when they say to you, “^aInquire of the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people ^binquire of their God? Should they ^cinquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

²⁰To the ¹^alaw and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because ^bthey have no dawn.

²¹And they will pass through ¹the land ^ahard-pressed and hungry, and it will be that when they are hungry, they will be angry and curse ²their king and their God as they face upward.

²²Then they will ^alook to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be ^bbanished into thick darkness.

CHAPTER 9

¹¹But there will be no more ^agloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He ^btreated the ^cland of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the ²Gentiles.

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Footnotes

1Or teaching
1Lit it
2Or by their king
1Ch 8:23 in Heb
2Or nations

Cross references

a Lev 20:6; 2 Kin 21:6; 23:24; Is 19:3; 29:4; 47:12, 13
b Is 30:2; 45:11
c 1 Sam 28:8–11
a Is 1:10; 8:16; Luke 16:29
b Is 8:22; Mic 3:6
a Is 9:20, 21
a Is 5:30; 59:9; Jer 13:16; Amos 5:18, 20; Zeph 1:14, 15
b Is 8:20
a Is 8:22
b 2 Kin 15:29; 2 Chr 16:4
c Matt 4:15, 16