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Isaiah 8:19 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? "

Isaiah 8:19

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17 I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

19 When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

20 Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward,

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Leviticus 19:31

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"“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God."

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"For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do."

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"Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”"

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Hosea 4:12

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"My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God."

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1 Chronicles 10:13

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"So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the LORD’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,"

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From This Chapter

Isaiah 8:1

"The LORD said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;"

Isaiah 8:2

"and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”"

Isaiah 8:3

"I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’"

Isaiah 8:4

"For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”"

Isaiah 8:5

"The LORD spoke to me yet again, saying,"

Isaiah 8:6

"“Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;"

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