rsv Isaiah:8:17-22
rsv@Isaiah:8:17 @ I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
rsv@Isaiah:8:18 @ Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
rsv@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
rsv@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.
rsv@Isaiah:8:21 @ They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their God, and turn their faces upward;
rsv@Isaiah:8:22 @ and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.