Isaiah 8:19-22

Darkness to Light Through the Prince of Peace

19 Now when they say to you, “^aInquire of the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people ^binquire of their God? Should they ^cinquire of the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the ¹^alaw and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because ^bthey have no dawn. 21 And they will pass through ¹the land ^ahard-pressed and hungry, and it will be that when they are hungry, they will be angry and curse ²their king and their God as they face upward. 22 Then they will ^alook to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be ^bbanished into thick darkness.