12. Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14. And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone or stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15. And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17. And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18. Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.
19. And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?