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Isaiah describes people urging consultation of mediums and necromancers and counters it with, “To the teaching and to the testimony!” (Isaiah 8:19-20). The passage depicts those who reject this as passing through distress and darkness, with gloom and anguish (Isaiah 8:21-22).
19When they shall tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn`t a people consult with their God? on behalf of the living [should they consult] with the dead?
20To the law and to the testimony! if they don`t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
21They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
22and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.