Isaiah 8:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Go to God’s instruction and testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ [Direct such people] to the teaching and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is surely because there is no dawn and no morning for them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Common English Bible

²⁰ for instruction and for testimony”—they will surely say such things, but they will never see the dawn.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light.

Isaiah 8:20 Cross References

Ezra 10:3

Therefore, let’s make a covenant before our God  to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God.  Let it be done according to the law.

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

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. Seal up the instruction  among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look towards the earth  and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: Stand by the roadways and look. Ask about the ancient paths, ‘Which is the way to what is good? ’ Then take it and find rest for yourselves. But they protested, ‘We won’t! ’

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and snared. They have rejected the word of the  Lord, so what wisdom do they really have?

Hosea 6:3

Let’s strive to know the  Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the land.

Micah 3:6

Therefore, it will be night  for you – without visions; it will grow dark for you – without divination. The sun will set  on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings,  and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered them, ‘You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

Mark 10:3

He replied to them, ‘What did Moses   command you? ’

Luke 10:26

‘What is written in the law? ’ he asked him. ‘How do you read it? ’

John 5:39

You pore over the Scriptures   because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me.

Acts 17:11

The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined  the Scriptures  daily to see if these things were so.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

2 Peter 1:19

We also have the prophetic word strongly confirmed, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place,  until the day dawns  and the morning star  rises in your hearts.

2 Peter 1:9

The person who lacks these things is blind and short-sighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.