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Trust the Lord, Not Alliances or Diviners

Isaiah 8:11-22

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Chapter 8
11 For thus said the LORD to me with the strength of his hand, and he disciplined me from walking in the way of this people, saying: 12 Do not say "conspiracy" to all that this people says "conspiracy," and do not fear its fear, and do not dread it. 13 You shall sanctify the LORD of hosts, and he shall be your fear, and he shall be your dread. 14 And he will be a sanctuary and a stone of striking and a rock of stumbling for the two houses of Israel, a snare and a trap for the inhabitant of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them stumbled and fell and were broken and were snared and were captured. 16 Seal the testimony, seal the Torah among my disciples. 17 And I waited for the LORD who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I hoped for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. 19 And when they say to you, "Seek the fathers and the knowers, the chirping ones and the muttering ones"—should not a people seek its God for the living ones, to the dead ones? 20 To the Torah and to the testimony! If they do not say according to this word, it has no dawn! 21 And he will pass through it—hardness and famine—and it will be: when he hungers, he will burn with anger and blaspheme his king and his God, and turn upward. 22 And he will look to the land, and behold, distress and darkness, distress flying away and gloom driven away.