Isaiah 8:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

Cross References

Ezra 10:3

Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Psalm 119:130

The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

Psalm 78:5

He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:22

and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Micah 3:6

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

Malachi 4:2

But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

Matthew 6:23

but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Mark 10:3

He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

Luke 10:26

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read?”

John 5:39

You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;

Acts 17:11

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

2 Peter 1:19

And we have the prophetic word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this 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

For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.