Isaias

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.

3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased its joyz’ they joy before thee like the joy in harvest, and as men exult when they divide the spoil.

4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the stafl’ of his shoulder, the rod of his exactor, as in the day of Midian.

5 For every boot of him that is booted with tumult, and the cloke rolled in blood—it shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.

6 For a child is born unto us, a son is given unto us; and the government is upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonder, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ’

7 To the increase of his government and to peace there is no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to sustain it with judgment and with righteous- ness from henceforth and for ever. The jealousy of the LORD of Hosts will do this.