Isaiah 8:20
“To the Law and to the Testimonie: if they speake not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
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Isaiah 8:20 Context
18Behold, I, and the children whom the Lord hath giuen me, are for signes, and for wonders in Israel: from the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19¶ And when they shall say vnto you; Seeke vnto them that haue familiar spirits, and vnto wizards that peepe and that mutter: should not a people seeke vnto their God? for the liuing, to the dead? 20To the Law and to the Testimonie: if they speake not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 21And they shall passe through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to passe, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselues, and curse their King, and their God, and looke vpward. 22And they shall looke vnto the earth: and behold trouble and darkenesse, dimnesse of anguish; and they shall be driuen to darkenesse.
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Other Translations for Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
- King James Version
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Then 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. ...
- Basic English Bible
To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
- Darby Bible
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Webster's Bible
Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- World English Bible
To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
for instruction and for testimony?' --Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light.--
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Isaiah 8:20
8:20 To the law - Let this dispute between you and them be determined by God's word, which is here and in many other places called the law, to signify their obligation to believe and obey it; and the testimony, because it is a witness between God and man, of God's will, and of man's duty. They - Your antagonists. No light - This proceeds from the darkness of their minds, they are blind, and cannot see.