KJV King James Version
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
WEB World English 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.
ASV American Standard Version
To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, ‘That there is no dawn to it.’
Surrounding context — Isaiah 8
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
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.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.
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2 Peter 1:19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:Isaiah 30:8-11Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:2 Timothy 3:15-17And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.Acts 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.Psalm 119:130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.Jeremiah 8:9The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?Mark 7:7-9Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.John 5:46-47For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.Isaiah 8:16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.Hosea 6:3Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.Romans 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.Micah 3:6Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.Galatians 3:8-29And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.Matthew 22:29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.Malachi 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.Matthew 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness!
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