Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. New Living Translation Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. English Standard Version To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. 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. King James 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. New King James Version To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. New American Standard Bible To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak in accordance with this word, it is because they have no dawn. NASB 1995 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. NASB 1977 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. Legacy Standard Bible To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. Amplified Bible [Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn. Christian Standard Bible Go to God’s instruction and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them. Holman Christian Standard Bible To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them. 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English To the Written Law and to the Testimony, for they will not speak according to this Word, because there is no one to give a bribe for it Brenton Septuagint Translation For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it. Contemporary English Version what it should do." None of those who talk like that will live to see the light of day! Douay-Rheims Bible To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light. English Revised Version To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. GOD'S WORD® Translation They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people don't speak these words, it is because it doesn't dawn on them. Good News Translation You are to answer them, "Listen to what the LORD is teaching you! Don't listen to mediums--what they tell you cannot keep trouble away." International Standard Version for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them. JPS Tanakh 1917 for instruction and for testimony?'--Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light.-- Literal Standard Version To the Law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, “That there is no dawn to it.” Majority Standard Bible To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. New American Bible for instruction and testimony?” Surely, those who speak like this are the ones for whom there is no dawn. NET Bible Then you must recall the LORD's instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened. New Revised Standard Version for teaching and for instruction?” surely, those who speak like this will have no dawn! New Heart English Bible Turn to the law and to the testimony. If they do not speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. Webster's Bible Translation To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. World English Bible Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. 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.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Darkness and Light19When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. 21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.… Cross References Luke 16:29 But Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.' Psalm 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples. Isaiah 8:22 Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness. Jeremiah 6:16 This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: 'Where is the good way?' Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it!' Micah 3:6 Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them. Treasury of Scripture To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. the law Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. Luke 10:26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? Luke 16:29-31 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them… it is Isaiah 30:8-11 Now 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: … Psalm 19:7,8 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple… Psalm 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. light. Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Hosea 6:3 Then 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. Malachi 4:2 But 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. Jump to Previous Dawn Daybreak Faith Instruction Law Manner Morning Speak Surely Teaching Testimony Turn Wherein Witness WordJump to Next Dawn Daybreak Faith Instruction Law Manner Morning Speak Surely Teaching Testimony Turn Wherein Witness WordIsaiah 8 1. In Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, he prophesies Syria and Israel shall be subdued by Assyria5. Judah likewise for their infidelity 9. God's judgments shall be irresistible 11. Comfort shall be to those who fear God 19. Great afflictions to idolaters (20) To the law and to the testimony.--The words are only remotely and by analogy an exhortation to the study of Scripture in general, or even to that of the Law of Moses in particular. "The law and the testimony" are obviously here, as in Isaiah 8:16, the "word of Jehovah," spoken to the prophet himself, the revelation which had come to him with such an intensity of power. If they speak not according to this word . . .--The personal pronoun refers to the people of Isaiah 8:19 who were hunting after soothsayers. The second clause should be rendered, for them there is no light of morning. The light here is that of hope rather than of knowledge. No morning dawn should shine on those who haunted the caves and darkened rooms of the diviners, the seances of the spiritualists of Jerusalem. The verse admits, however, of a different construction. As the Hebrew idiom, "If they shall . . ." stands, as in Psalm 95:11; Hebrews 4:3; Hebrews 4:5, for the strongest form of negative prediction, so "if they shall not . . ." may stand here for the strongest form of positive. So taken the verse would read, Surely they will speak according to this word. (i.e., will have recourse to the true Revelation) when there is no morning-dawn for them, when they look above and around, and see nothing but darkness. . . . Verse 20. - To the Law and to the testimony. A sort of watchword or battle-cry, to be used by the faithful when God's enemies assailed them. Compare Gideon's cry (Judges 7:18), "For the Lord and for Gideon." If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them; rather, Surely they will speak according to this word, when there is no dawn for them; i.e. when they are plunged in darkness (ver. 22) and distress, and see no prospect of better days, surely they - the people generally - will rally to this cry, and repeat it, "For the Law and for the testimony." They will not always trust in necromancy.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew To the lawלְתוֹרָ֖ה (lə·ṯō·w·rāh) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law and to the testimony! וְלִתְעוּדָ֑ה (wə·liṯ·‘ū·ḏāh) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8584: Attestation, a precept, usage If אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not they do not לֹ֤א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no speak יֹֽאמְרוּ֙ (yō·mə·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 559: To utter, say according to this הַזֶּ֔ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that word, כַּדָּבָ֣ר (kad·dā·ḇār) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause they have no אֵֽין־ (’ên-) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle light of dawn. שָֽׁחַר׃ (šā·ḥar) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7837: Dawn Links Isaiah 8:20 NIVIsaiah 8:20 NLT Isaiah 8:20 ESV Isaiah 8:20 NASB Isaiah 8:20 KJV Isaiah 8:20 BibleApps.com Isaiah 8:20 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 8:20 Chinese Bible Isaiah 8:20 French Bible Isaiah 8:20 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 8:20 Turn to the law and to (Isa Isi Is) |
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