Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.'

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 And when they shall say to you, Seek ye to necromancers and to wizards peeping and panting: shall not a people seek their God among the living for the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony if they will not speak according to this word, because no morning is in them. 21 And passing through it, harshly oppressed and hungry; and it was when he shall be hungry, and they brake forth and cursed against their king and their God, and looked upwards.

Cross References

Micah 3:6

For this, night to you from a vision, and darkness to you from divining; and the sun went down upon the prophets, and the day was dark upon them.

2 Peter 1:19

And we have the prophetic word more firm; which holding to, ye do well, as to a light shining in a dusty place, even till the day shine through, and the morning star spring up in your hearts:

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up the oracle, seal up the law among the disciples.

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of Jehovah is blameless, turning back the soul; the testimonies of Jehovah being faithful, making wise the simple.

Psalm 119:130

The entrance of thy words will enlighten; causing the simple to understand.

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye leaders of Sodom: give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 30:8-11

Now go, write it to them upon a tablet, and engrave it upon a book, and it shall be for the latter day, forever even forever.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise were ashamed, they were confounded, and they will be taken: behold, they rejected in the word of Jehovah; and what wisdom to them?

Hosea 6:3

And we shall know, we shall pursue to know Jehovah: as the morning his going forth was prepared; and he shall come as the rain to us, as the latter rain, the early rain of the earth.

Malachi 4:2

And to you fearing my name the sun of justice arose, and healing in his wings; and ye went forth and spread as calves of the stall.

Matthew 6:23

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness

Matthew 22:29

And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Ye are led astray, not having known the writings, nor the power of God.

Mark 7:7-9

And in vain they revere me, teaching doctrines the commands of men.

Luke 10:26

And he said to him, What has been written in the law? how readest thou ?

Luke 16:29-31

Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

John 5:39

Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me.

John 5:46-47

For if ye had believed Moses, ye had believed me: for he himself wrote of me.

Acts 17:11

And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus.

Romans 1:22

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

Galatians 3:8-29

And the writing, foreseeing that of faith God justifies the nations, announced beforehand the good news to Abraham, That in thee shall all nations be praised.

Galatians 4:21-22

Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

2 Timothy 3:15-17

And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:9

For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

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