²⁰ Consult God’s instruction^(A) and the testimony of warning.^(B) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light^(C) of dawn. ²¹ Distressed and hungry,^(D) they will roam through the land;^(E) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse^(F) their king and their God. ²² Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,^(G) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.^(H)

¹¹ For you this whole vision^(E) is nothing but words sealed^(F) in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” ¹² Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”