Third Millennium Bible TMB
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15 And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken, and be snared and be taken."
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Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, who hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.
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I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in Mount Zion.
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Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, "Seek unto those who have familiar spirits and wizards, who peep and who mutter," should not a people seek unto their God? For the living, to the dead?
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When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
20 To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
21 And they shall pass through it sorely beset and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves and curse their king and their God, and look upward;
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Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.
22 and they shall look unto the earth and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish, and they shall be driven to darkness.
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Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
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