Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

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! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

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.

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. ...

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.

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.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
To the law
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

and to the testimony
תּעוּדה 
T@`uwdah 
Usage: 3

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

it is because there is no light
שׁחר 
Shachar 
Usage: 24

References

Prayers for Isaiah 8:20

Context Readings

The Darkness Turns To Light

19 But, when they say unto you - Seek ye unto the necromancers and unto the wizards, who chirp, and who mutter, Should not u people seek, unto its God? In behalf of the living, should it seek unto the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, It is , because they have no dawning day. 21 Therefore shall they pass through it hard pressed and hungry, - And it shall be when they hunger, then will they rage and revile their king and their god and turn their faces upwards;

Cross References

Micah 3:6

Therefore, shall it be night to you, for lack of vision, and darkness to you, for lack of divination, - and the sun, shall go in, over the prophets, and the day, shall be overcast because of them;

2 Peter 1:19

And we have, more firm, the prophetic word; - whereunto ye are doing, well, to take heed, - as unto a lamp shining in a dusky place, - until, day, shall dawn, and, a day-star, shall arise in your hearts: -

Isaiah 8:16

Bind thou up the testimony, - Seal the instruction amongst my disciples.

Psalm 19:7-8

The, law of Yahweh, is complete, Bringing back the soul, The, testimony of Yahweh, is confirmed, Making wise the simple;

Psalm 119:130

The opening of thy words, sheddeth light, Giving understanding to the simple.

Proverbs 4:18

But, the path of the righteous, is as the light of dawn, - going on and brightening, unto meridian day.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom, - Give ear to the instruction of our God, ye people of Gomorrah: -

Isaiah 30:8-11

Now, enter - Write it upon a tablet before them And upon a scroll, inscribe it, - That it may serve for a later day, For futurity, unto times age-abiding: -

Jeremiah 8:9

Ashamed are the wise, dismayed and captured! Lo! the word of Yahweh, have they rejected, And, what wisdom, have, they?

Hosea 6:3

Then let us know - let us press on to know - Yahweh, Like the dawn, is his coming forth assured, - that he may come like a down-pour upon us, like the harvest-rain, and the seed-rain of the land.

Malachi 4:2

So shall the sun of righteousness, arise to you who revere my Name, with healing in his wings, - and ye shall come forth and leap for joy like calves let loose from the stall;

Matthew 6:23

But, if thine eye be, evil, thy whole body, shall be, in the dark; - if therefore, the light which is in thee, is, darkness, the darkness, how great!

Matthew 22:29

And Jesus answering, said - Ye are deceiving yourselves, knowing neither the Scriptures, nor yet the power of God.

Mark 7:7-9

But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching for teachings, the commandments of men;

Luke 10:26

And, he, said unto him - In the law, what is written? how dost thou read?

Luke 16:29-31

But Abraham saith - They have Moses and the Prophets: Let them hearken unto them.

John 5:39

Ye search the Scriptures, because, ye, think, by them, to have, life age-abiding; and, those Scriptures , are they which bear witness concerning me:

John 5:46-47

For, if ye had been believing, in Moses, ye would, in that case, have been believing, in me: for, concerning me, he wrote.

Acts 17:11

and, these, were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they welcomed the word with all readiness of mind, daily, searching the Scriptures, - whether these things could be so.

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they were made foolish,

Galatians 3:8-29

And, the scripture, foreseeing, that, by faith, God would declare the nations righteous, fore-announced the good news unto Abraham, saying, All the nations shall be blessed in thee.

Galatians 4:21-22

Tell me! ye who, under law, are wishing to be: The law, do ye not hear?

2 Timothy 3:15-17

And that, from a babe, those sacred letters, thou hast known which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus:

2 Peter 1:9

For, he to whom these things are not present, is, blind, seeing only what is near, having come, to forget, his purification from his old sins.

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