Isaiah 8:16-20 - Warning Against Consulting The Dead

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony.
Seal up the instruction among my disciples.
¹⁷ I will wait for the Lord,
who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.
I will wait for Him.

¹⁸ Here I am with the children the Lord has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion. ¹⁹ When they say to you, “Consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.