10. Take counsel together, but it will amount to nothing. Speak a word, but it will not stand. For God is with us!
11. For thus Adonai spoke to me, with a strong hand, warning me that I should not walk in the way of these people, saying:
12. “Do not say: ‘It’s a conspiracy!’ about everything that these people call a conspiracy. You must not fear or tremble at what they fear.
13. Adonai-Tzva’ot, Him will you sanctify, and let Him be your fear, trembling at Him.
14. He will be a Sanctuary, but a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15. Many among them will stumble, fall, and be broken, snared and caught.
16. Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction with My disciples.
17. I will wait for Adonai, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.
18. Here I am with the children that Adonai has given me as signs and wonders in Israel, from Adonai-Tzva’ot who dwells on Mount Zion.
19. When they say to you: “Consult the mediums and necromancers who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people seek their God? Should a people consult the dead on behalf of the living?
20. To Torah and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no light.
21. They will pass this way that are hard-pressed and hungry, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will become enraged and curse their king and their God. Whether they turn their faces upward
22. or look to the earth, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be driven into darkness.
23. But there is no gloom to her who was in anguish, as in time past. He treated lightly the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will bring glory— by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan— Galilee of the Gentiles.