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20 for instruction and for testimony?
    Surely they are speaking like this
        because the truth[a] hasn’t dawned on them.

21 “They’ll pass through the land,[b]
    while[c] greatly distressed and hungry.
When they are hungry,
    they’ll become enraged,
and they’ll curse their king and their god.[d]
    They’ll turn their faces upwards,
22 or they’ll look toward the[e] earth,
    but they’ll see only distress and darkness,
the gloom that comes from anguish,
    and then they’ll be thrown into total darkness.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:20 1QIsaa MT lack the truth
  2. Isaiah 8:21 Lit. through it
  3. Isaiah 8:21 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks while
  4. Isaiah 8:21 So 1QIsaa; MT reads gods; LXX reads idols
  5. Isaiah 8:22 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks the