Isaiah 8:16-20 - Warning Against Consulting The Dead

¹⁶ "Bind up the testimony, and seal up the teaching among my disciples. ¹⁷ I'll wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I'll put my trust in him.

¹⁸ Watch out! I and the children whom the LORD has given me are a sign and a wonder in Israel from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, who resides on Mount Zion." ¹⁹ "So when they advise you, "Ask the mediums your questions, and quiz the spiritists who chirp and mutter,' shouldn't a people instead be consulting their God and not the dead on behalf of those who are living ²⁰ for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them.