Isaiah 8:20 Parallel Translations

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.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

ASV:

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

BBE:

Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...

DBY:

To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

ERV:

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

JPS:

for instruction and for testimony?' --Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light.--

WBS:

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

WEB:

Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

YLT:

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'

Isaiah 8:20 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the instruction of our God, You people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:22 Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

Micah 3:6 Therefore it will be night for you-- without vision, And darkness for you-- without divination. The sun will go down on the prophets, And the day will become dark over them.

Luke 16:29 "But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

8:20 To the {y} law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no {z} light in them.
(y) Seek remedy in the word of God, where his will is declared.
(z) They have no knowledge but are blind leaders of the blind.

WES:

8:20 To the law - Let this dispute between you and them be determined by God's word, which is here and in many other places called the law, to signify their obligation to believe and obey it; and the testimony, because it is a witness between God and man, of God's will, and of man's duty. They - Your antagonists. No light - This proceeds from the darkness of their minds, they are blind, and cannot see.

MHC:

8:17-22 The prophet foresaw that the Lord would hide his face; but he would look for his return in favour to them again. Though not miraculous signs, the children's names were memorials from God, suited to excite attention. The unbelieving Jews were prone to seek counsel in difficulties, from diviners of different descriptions, whose foolish and sinful ceremonies are alluded to. Would we know how we may seek to our God, and come to the knowledge of his mind? To the law and to the testimony; for there you will see what is good, and what the Lord requires. We must speak of the things of God in the words which the Holy Ghost teaches, and be ruled by them. To those that seek to familiar spirits, and regard not God's law and testimony, there shall be horror and misery. Those that go away from God, go out of the way of all good; for fretfulness is a sin that is its own punishment. They shall despair, and see no way of relief, when they curse God. And their fears will represent every thing as frightful. Those that shut their eyes against the light of God's word, will justly be left to darkness. All the miseries that ever were felt or witnessed on earth, are as nothing, compared with what will overwhelm those who leave the words of Christ, to follow delusions.

CONC:

Dawn Daybreak Faith Instruction Law Manner Morning Speak Surely Teaching Testimony Turn Wherein Witness

Dawn Daybreak Faith Instruction Law Manner Morning Speak Surely Teaching Testimony Turn Wherein Witness Word

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