Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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:

[*](15. ‘upon them’: or, ‘many among them shall stumble.’)
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22 And he shall look unto the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and into gloom is be driven away.