Isaiah 8:19-22

New International Version

The Darkness Turns to Light

¹⁹ When someone tells you to consult^(A) mediums and spiritists,^(B) who whisper and mutter,^(C) should not a people inquire^(D) of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰ Consult God’s instruction^(E) and the testimony of warning.^(F) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light^(G) of dawn. ²¹ Distressed and hungry,^(H) they will roam through the land;^(I) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse^(J) their king and their God. ²² Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,^(K) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.^(L)