Bible verses about "soothsayers" | Leeser

⁹ When thou comest into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

² If there be found in the midst of thee, within any one of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee a man or a woman, that doth the wickedness in the eyes of the Lord thy God, to transgress his covenant, ³ And he hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have prohibited; ⁴ And it be told thee, and thou hearest of it: then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, the thing is certain, such abomination hath been wrought in Israel: ⁵ Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who have committed this wicked thing, unto thy gates, the man or the woman, and thou shalt stone them with stones till they die.

²³ For the sin of witchcraft is rebellion, and idolatry and image-worship, stubbornness; inasmuch as thou hast despised the word of the Lord, he hath also despised thee that thou shalt not be king.

¹³ And so died Saul for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he had not kept, and also for asking one of a familiar spirit to inquire of the same;

¹ On that day will the Lord punish with his heavy and great and strong sword leviathan the flying serpent, and leviathan the crooked servant; and he will slay the crocodile that is in the sea.

³ Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Woe unto the scandalous prophets, that follow their own spirit, without having seen any thing!

^{12 (5:11)} And I will cut off the arts of witchcraft out of thy hand; and soothsayers shalt thou have no more;

¹ The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morashthite in the days of Jotham, Achaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, which he foresaw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. ² Hear, ye people, altogether; listen, O earth, with all that filleth it: and let the Lord Eternal be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. ³ For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his residence; and he will come down, and will step along upon the high places of the earth. ⁴ And the mountains shall melt beneath him, and the valleys shall cleave in twain, like wax melteth before the fire, like water poured out on a declivity. ⁵ For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. Who caused the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and who caused the high-places of Judah? is it not Jerusalem? ⁶ Therefore will I change Samaria into stone-heaps on the field, into vineyard plantations: and I will hurl down into the valley her stones, and her foundations will I lay open. ⁷ And all her graven images shall he beaten to pieces, and all her wages of sin shall be burnt with the fire, and all her idols will I make desolate; for from harlot’s wages she gathered them, and for harlot’s wages shall they be used again. ⁸ For this will I lament and wail; I will go confused and naked: I will make a lament like the crocodiles, and mourning like the ostriches. ⁹ For her wounds arc incurable; for the evil is come even unto Judah; the enemy hath reached as far as the gate of my people, even up to Jerusalem. ¹⁰ Tell it not at Gath, weep ye not loudly there: in Bethle’aphrah roll thyself in the dust. ¹¹ Pass ye away, ye inhabitants of Shaphir, having your shame laid bare: the inhabitress of Zaanan cometh not forth any more; the mourning of Beth-haezel taketh from you its halting place. ¹² For the inhabitress of Maroth is grieved for the lost good; because evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem. ¹³ Bind the chariot to the swift horses, O inhabitress of Lachish: the beginning of sin was she to the daughter of Zion; for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel. ¹⁴ Therefore shalt thou have to give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall become a deception to the kings of Israel. ¹⁵ Yet will I bring an enemy as heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: as far as ‘Adullam shall withdraw the glory of Israel. ¹⁶ Make thyself bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness like the eagle; because they are gone into exile from thee.

²⁶ Ye shall not eat upon the blood; nor shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

⁹ When thou comest into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found among thee any one who causeth his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who useth divination, one who is an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a conjurer. ¹¹ Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or who inquireth of the dead. ¹² For an abomination unto the Lord are all that do these things; and on account of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. ¹³ Perfect shalt thou be with the Lord thy God. ¹⁴ For these nations, which thou art about to dispossess, hearken unto observers of times, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not assigned the like unto thee.

¹³ Thou art wearied with the multitude of thy counsels. Do let now those that divide off the heavens, that look at the stars, that announce coming events at new moons, stand up, and save thee from the things that are to come over thee. ¹⁴ Behold, they are become as stubble; the fire burneth them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: not a coal shall be left to warm at, no blaze to sit before it. ¹⁵ Thus are they become unto thee with whom thou hast labored; those that had commerce with thee from thy youth, wander away every one on his road: there is no one to save thee.

²⁷ Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded no wise men, astrologers, magicians, or soothsayers, can tell unto the king; ²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what is to be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy couch, were these.

³¹ Turn not unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards; seek them not, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

⁹ When thou comest into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found among thee any one who causeth his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who useth divination, one who is an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a conjurer. ¹¹ Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or who inquireth of the dead. ¹² For an abomination unto the Lord are all that do these things; and on account of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.