And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Thy speech shall be low out of the dust ... as of one that hath a familiar spirit. Jerusalem shall be as a captive, humbled to the dust. Her voice shall come from the earth, as that of the spirit-charmers or necromancers (Isaiah 8:19), faint and shrill, as the voice of the dead was supposed to be: ventriloquism was doubtless the trick used to make the voice appear to come from the earth (Isaiah 19:3). An appropriate retribution that Jerusalem, which, consulted necromancers, should be made like them.