Isaiah 8:11-22

11 This is what the LORD says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:
12 “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.
13 The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.
14 He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.
15 Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”
16 Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
18 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 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 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 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 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

Cross References 35

  • 1. Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 3:14
  • 2. Ezekiel 2:8
  • 3. Isaiah 7:2; Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 30:1; Isaiah 36:6
  • 4. S Isaiah 7:4; Matthew 10:28
  • 5. 1 Peter 3:14*
  • 6. S Numbers 20:12
  • 7. S Exodus 20:20
  • 8. Isaiah 29:23
  • 9. S Isaiah 4:6; Ezekiel 11:16
  • 10. S Psalms 118:22
  • 11. Jeremiah 6:21; Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 14:3,7; Luke 20:18
  • 12. S Luke 2:34; Romans 9:33*; 1 Peter 2:8*
  • 13. S Psalms 119:110; Isaiah 24:17-18
  • 14. Proverbs 4:19; Isaiah 28:13; Isaiah 59:10; Luke 20:18; Romans 9:32
  • 15. S Ruth 4:7
  • 16. Isaiah 29:11-12; Jeremiah 32:14; Daniel 8:26; Daniel 12:4
  • 17. S Psalms 27:14; Habakkuk 2:3
  • 18. S Deuteronomy 31:17; Isaiah 54:8
  • 19. S Psalms 22:5; Hebrews 2:13*
  • 20. S Genesis 33:5; Hebrews 2:13*
  • 21. S Exodus 3:12; Ezekiel 4:3; Ezekiel 12:6; Ezekiel 24:24; Luke 2:34
  • 22. S Deuteronomy 28:46; S Ezekiel 12:11
  • 23. Psalms 9:11
  • 24. S 1 Samuel 28:8
  • 25. S Leviticus 19:31
  • 26. Isaiah 29:4
  • 27. S Numbers 27:21
  • 28. S Isaiah 1:10; Luke 16:29
  • 29. S Ruth 4:7
  • 30. ver 22; Isaiah 9:2; Isaiah 59:9; Isaiah 60:2; Micah 3:6
  • 31. S Job 18:12
  • 32. Job 30:3
  • 33. S Exodus 22:28; Revelation 16:11
  • 34. S Job 15:24
  • 35. S ver 20; S Job 3:13; S Isaiah 5:30; S Joel 2:2; Matthew 25:30; Revelation 16:10
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