Isaias

12 Say ye not, A conspiracy, of all whereof this people saith, A conspiracy 3 and fear not the fear of it, nor be afraid:

13 The LORD of Hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence, to both the houses of Israel, for a and for. a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15 And many shall stumble upon them, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

17 And I will wait for the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and will hope in him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

19 And when they shall say unto you, Inquire of the necromancers and the wizards, that peep and that mutter; should not a people inquire of its God? (should they inquire) of the dead on behalf of the living?

20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no dawn for him.

21 And he shall pass through it, hardly arid hungry; and it shall be, when he shall be hungry, he shall fret himself, and revile his king and his God, and shall face upward:

22 And he shall look unto the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and into gloom is be driven away.

IX. I Yet there is no darkness to her that had distress. As at the first he brought into contempt the land of Zabulon and the land of Naphthali, so in the‘latter time he (hath) brought honour to the way of the sea, beyond— Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

2 The people that walk in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them ’ · hath the light shined.