Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
New American Standard Bible
Then they will
King James Version
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Holman Bible
They will look toward the earth
International Standard Version
or they'll look toward the earth, but they'll see only distress and darkness, the gloom that comes from anguish, and then they'll be thrown into total darkness."
A Conservative Version
And they shall look to the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness [to be] driven away.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Then they will look to the earth, they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness and overwhelming night.
Bible in Basic English
And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
Darby Translation
and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.
Julia Smith Translation
And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.
King James 2000
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
or look to [the] earth. But look! Distress and darkness, [the] gloom of affliction! And [it will be] thrust [into] darkness!
Modern King James verseion
And they shall look to the land; and behold, trouble and darkness and gloom of anguish! And they are driven away into darkness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and behold, there is trouble and darkness; vexation is round about him, and the cloud of error. And out of such adversity, shall he not escape.
NET Bible
When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
New Heart English Bible
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
The Emphasized Bible
And unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!
Webster
And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
World English Bible
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Themes
Adversity » Sometimes the result of sin and folly
Darkness » Illustrative of » Heavy afflictions
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Trouble and distress
Interlinear
Nabat
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Tsarah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 8:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Darkness Turns To Light
21 -- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards. 22 And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 5:30
And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!
Jeremiah 13:16
Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.
Zephaniah 1:14-15
Near is the great day of Jehovah, Near, and hasting exceedingly, The noise of the day of Jehovah, Bitterly shriek there doth a mighty one.
2 Chronicles 15:5-6
and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles are on all the inhabitants of the lands,
Job 18:18
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Proverbs 14:32
In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'
Isaiah 9:1
As the former time made light The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, So the latter hath honoured the way of the sea, Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Jeremiah 23:12
Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask, I pray you, and see, is a male bringing forth? Wherefore have I seen every man, His hands on his loins, as a travailing woman, And all faces have been turned to paleness?
Amos 5:18-20
Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why is this to you -- the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light,
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'
Matthew 22:13
'Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;
Matthew 24:29
'And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
Luke 21:25-26
And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;
Jude 1:13
wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.