Isaiah 8:20

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Summary

Isaiah 8:20

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

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Light

General references

Bible References

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Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

Light

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

General references

Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.

I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.

And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?