14. He will be a sanctuary; but for the two houses of Israel,He will be a stone to stumble overand a rock to trip over, and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15. Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken;they will be snared and captured.
16. Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples.
17. I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for Him.
18. Here I am with the children the Lord has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion.
19. When they say to you, “Consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
20. To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.
21. They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.
22. They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.