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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And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

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

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

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

but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

Light

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

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

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

And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

General references

"Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand."

and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;

because John had been saying to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?"