16. Bind up the testimony; seal up the teaching among my disciples.
17. I will wait for the Lord, who has hidden his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in God.
18. Look! I and the children the Lord gave me are signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of heavenly forces, who lives on Mount Zion.
19. If they say to you: "Consult the ghosts and the spirits that chirp and mutter. (Shouldn’t a people consult its gods?) Consult the dead on behalf of the living
20. for instruction and for testimony"—they will surely say such things, but they will never see the dawn.
21. They will pass through the land, dejected and hungry, and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and God. They will turn toward heaven
22. and look to the earth, but they will see only distress and darkness, random movement, and the anguish and doom of banishment.