Isa 8:19 | CPDV | STEP | And though they say to you, “Seek from seers and diviners,” they who hiss in their incantations, should not the people seek from their God, for the sake of the living, and not from the dead?

‏ Isaiah 8:19

19 And though they say to you, “Seek from seers and diviners,” they who hiss in their incantations, should not the people seek from their God, for the sake of the living, and not from the dead? ^{▼▼8:19The term ‘Numquid’ asks a question which expects a negative answer; but when ‘non’ is added, the expectation is of a positive answer. Since the answer to this question is expected to be ‘yes,’ the question refers to the true God (with a capital letter).(Conte)
,} ^{▼▼8:19 Seek of pythons: That is, people pretending to tell future things by a prophesying spirit.(Challoner)
,} ^{▼▼8:19 Should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?: Here is signified, that it is to God we should pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of fortune-tellers dead in sin,) for the health of the living.(Challoner)}