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Isaiah 8:19-21
International Standard Version
Isaiah 8:19-21
International Standard Version
Rejecting Occultic Wisdom
19 “So when they advise you,
‘Ask the mediums your questions,
and quiz the spiritists who chirp and mutter,’
shouldn’t a people instead be consulting their God—[a]
and not the dead—
on behalf of those who are living
20 for instruction and for testimony?
Surely they are speaking like this
because the truth[b] hasn’t dawned on them.
21 “They’ll pass through the land,[c]
while[d] greatly distressed and hungry.
When they are hungry,
they’ll become enraged,
and they’ll curse their king and their god.[e]
They’ll turn their faces upwards,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 8:19 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads gods
- Isaiah 8:20 1QIsaa MT lack the truth
- Isaiah 8:21 Lit. through it
- Isaiah 8:21 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks while
- Isaiah 8:21 So 1QIsaa; MT reads gods; LXX reads idols
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