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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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

The LORD's Law is perfect, restoring the soul. The LORD's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.

But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

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

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Light

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Let us acknowledge the LORD. Let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, The LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

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

I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.

For John said 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?"