Isaiah 8:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Isaiah 8:20 Cross References

Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Psalm 119:130

The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.

Psalm 78:5

For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children:

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 8:16

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

Isaiah 8:22

and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

Hosea 6:3

And let us know, let us follow on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

Micah 3:6

Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

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 gambol as calves of the stall.

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Matthew 6:23

But 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 the darkness!

Mark 10:3

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

Luke 10:26

And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

John 5:39

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

2 Peter 1:19

And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

2 Peter 1:9

For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.