Isaiah 8:19-21

New Catholic Bible

¹⁹ People may say to you,
    “Seek guidance from ghosts and mediums
    who whisper and mutter.
Should not a people consult its gods
    and the dead on behalf of the living
²⁰     while seeking instruction or a message?”
Those who offer suggestions like this
    will experience no dawn.
²¹ They will wander through the land
    greatly distressed and starving.
Once their hunger becomes acute,
    they will be enraged
    and curse their king and their gods.
They will turn their gaze upward,