Isaiah 8:19

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When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Context

16Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.

17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

19When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

20Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

21They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

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