Isaiah 8:19–9:1

¹⁹And when they say to you, ^t“Seek those who are mediums and wizards, ^uwho whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they ^vseek the dead on behalf of the living? ^20wTo the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because ^xthere ⁶is no light in them.

²¹They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and ^ycurse ⁷their king and their God, and look upward. ²²Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.

The Government of the Promised Son

9Nevertheless ^athe gloom will not be upon her who is distressed,

As when at ^bfirst He lightly esteemed

The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,

And ^cafterward more heavily oppressed her,

By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,

In Galilee of the Gentiles.