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Bible in Basic English
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. ...
New American Standard Bible
To the
King James Version
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Holman Bible
To the law and to the testimony!
International Standard Version
for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them.
A Conservative Version
[Seek] to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
American Standard Version
To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Amplified
[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Darby Translation
To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
Julia Smith Translation
To the law and to the testimony if they will not speak according to this word, because no morning is in them.
King James 2000
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.
Modern King James verseion
To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because no light is in them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.
NET Bible
Then you must recall the Lord's instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.
New Heart English Bible
Turn to the law and to the testimony. If they do not speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
The Emphasized Bible
To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, It is , because they have no dawning day.
Webster
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
World English Bible
Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Youngs Literal Translation
To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'
Themes
false Doctrines » Try, by scripture
The scriptures » Everything should be tried by
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 8:20
Prayers for Isaiah 8:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Darkness Turns To Light
19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead? 20 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. ... 21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
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Cross References
Micah 3:6
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.
2 Peter 1:19
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;
Isaiah 8:16
Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.
Psalm 19:7-8
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.
Psalm 119:130
The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
Proverbs 4:18
But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
Isaiah 1:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 30:8-11
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.
Jeremiah 8:9
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?
Hosea 6:3
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.
Malachi 4:2
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.
Matthew 6:23
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!
Matthew 22:29
But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
Mark 7:7-9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Luke 10:26
And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?
Luke 16:29-31
But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
John 5:39
You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
John 5:46-47
If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Galatians 3:8-29
And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
Galatians 4:21-22
Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
2 Timothy 3:15-17
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 1:9
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.