Isaiah 8:16 Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God's instruction among my disciples.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God's instruction among my disciples.

English Standard Version
Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.

New American Standard Bible
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

King James Bible
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples.

International Standard Version
"Bind up the testimony, and seal up the teaching among my disciples.

American Standard Version
Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Darby Bible Translation
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Young's Literal Translation
Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.

Cross References

Isaiah 8:1
Moreover the LORD said to me, Take you a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

Isaiah 8:2
And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

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.

Isaiah 29:11
And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I cannot; for it is sealed:

Isaiah 29:12
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I am not learned.

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.

Daniel 12:4
But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:9-16 The prophet challenges the enemies of the Jews. Their efforts would be vain, and themselves broken to pieces. It concerns us, in time of trouble, to watch against all such fears as put us upon crooked courses for our own security. The believing fear of God preserves against the disquieting fear of man. If we thought rightly of the greatness and glory of God, we should see all the power of our enemies restrained. The Lord, who will be a Sanctuary to those who trust in him, will be a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offence, to those who make the creature their fear and their hope. If the things of God be an offence to us, they will undo us. The apostle quotes this as to all who persisted in unbelief of the gospel of Christ, 1Pe 2:8. The crucified Emmanuel, who was and is a Stumbling-stone and Rock of offence to unbelieving Jews, is no less so to thousands who are called Christians. The preaching of the cross is foolishness in their esteem; his doctrines and precepts offend them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16. Bind up … seal—What Isaiah had before briefly noted by inscribing Maher-shalal-hash-baz in a tablet, fixed up in some public place, he afterwards wrote out more in detail in a parchment roll (Isa 30:8); this he is now to seal up, not merely in order that nothing may be added to, or taken from it, as being complete, but to imply that it relates to distant events, and is therefore to be a sealed and not understood testimony (Isa 6:9, 10), except in part among God's "disciples," that is, those who "sanctify the Lord" by obedient trust (Ps 25:14). Subsequent revelations would afterwards clear up what now was dark. So the Apocalypse explains what in Daniel was left unexplained (compare Da 8:26; 12:9). "The words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end"; but Re 22:10, "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy … for the time is at hand" (compare Re 5:1, 5, 9),

testimony—attested by Uriah and Zechariah (Isa 8:2).

law—the revelation just given, having the force of a law.

disciples—not as Maurer, Uriah and Zechariah (compare Joh 7:17; 15:15).