Isaiah 8:19-22

Lexham English Bible

¹⁹ Now if they tell you, “Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living, ²⁰ for teaching and for testimony?” surely they who speak like this have no dawn.^[a]

²¹ And it^[b] will pass through it^[c] distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods,^[d] and it will face upwar ²² or look to the earth. But look! Distress and darkness, the gloom of affliction! And it will be thrust into darkness!