¹⁸ Listen carefully, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are ^[a]for signs and wonders [that will occur] in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

¹⁹ When the people [instead of trusting God] say to you, “Consult the mediums [who try to talk to the dead] and the soothsayers who chirp and whisper and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰ [Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.