²⁰Consult God’s instruction^o and the testimony of warning.^p If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light^q of dawn. ²¹Distressed and hungry,^r they will roam through the land;^s when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse^t their king and their God. ²²Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,^u and they will be thrust into utter darkness.^v

9^aNevertheless, there will be no more gloom^w for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,^x but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—

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Footnotes

aIn Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2–21 is numbered 9:1–20.

Cross references

oSee Isa 1:10; Lk 16:29
pSee Ru 4:7
qver 22; Isa 9:2; 59:9; 60:2; Mic 3:6
rSee Job 18:12
s Job 30:3
tSee Ex 22:28; Rev 16:11
uSee Job 15:24
vSee ver 20; See Job 3:13; See Isa 5:30; See Joel 2:2; Mt 25:30; Rev 16:10
wSee Job 15:24
xSee 2 Ki 15:29