Wait for Yahweh

• 11 For Yahweh said this to me while his hand weighed heavily on me ,[fn] and he warned me not to walk[fn] in the way of this people, saying,
• 12 “You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and you must not share its fear ,[fn] and you must not be in dread.
• 13 You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy, and he is your[fn] fear, and he is your dread.
• 14 And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel,
• like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• 15 And many shall stumble among them, and they shall fall and they shall be broken,
• and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught.”

16 Bind up the testimony;

• seal the teaching among my disciples.
• 17 And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him.

18 Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion. 19 Now if they tell you, “Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living, 20 for teaching and for testimony?” ⌊surely they who speak like this have no dawn⌋.[fn]

21 And it[fn] will pass through it[fn] distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods,[fn] and it will face upwar 22 or look to the earth. But look! Distress and darkness, the gloom of affliction! And it will be thrust into darkness!