Isaiah 8:11-22 - Wait For Yahweh
11 For this is what the LORD spoke to me, as his forceful hand was resting on me, and as he was warning me not to live the way this people were living:
12 "Don't call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and don't fear what they fear, or live in terror. 13 The LORD of the Heavenly Armies he's the one you are to regard as holy. Let him be the one whom you fear, and let him be the one before whom you stand in terror! 14 Then he will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he'll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself, a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem. 15 Many will stumble on them; They'll fall and be broken; They'll be snared and captured.
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.
21 "They'll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they'll become enraged, and they'll curse their king and their god. They'll turn their faces upwards, 22 or they'll look toward the earth, but they'll see only distress and darkness, the gloom that comes from anguish, and then they'll be thrown into total darkness."