13. Sanctify the Lord of Hosts Himself,and let Him be your fear,and let Him be your dread.
14. He shall become a sanctuary,but a stone of stumbling and a rock of offenseto both the houses of Israel,and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15. Many among them shall stumbleand fall and be brokenand be snared and be taken.
16. Bind up the testimony;seal the law among My disciples.
17. I will wait on the Lord,who hides His face from the house of Jacob,and I will eagerly look for Him.
18. See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwells in Mount Zion.
19. When they say to you, “Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek after their God? Should they consult the dead for the living?
20. To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21. They shall pass through the land hard-pressed and hungry; when they are hungry, they shall be furious and curse their king and their God as they look upward.
22. Then they shall look to the earth and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish. And they shall be driven away into darkness.