16Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.
17And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
18See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion.
19And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?
20Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
21And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
22And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
