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To the testimony. WARNING | The passage rejects consulting the dead and turns to instruction and testimony. Hunger, distress and darkness follow. No imagined spirit is presented as a biblical event.
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Isaiah 8:19-22

To the testimony

Signs in a Darkening Land · Isaiah 8

Story guide: WARNING | The passage rejects consulting the dead and turns to instruction and testimony. Hunger, distress and darkness follow. No imagined spirit is presented as a biblical event.

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19And when they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,” should not a people consult its God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there is no dawn for them.

21And he will pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry; and when he is hungry, he will become enraged and curse his king and his God, and he will turn upward.

22And he will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and thick darkness will be driven away.

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