Isaiah 8:20

The Darkness Turns To Light

¹⁹ People will say to you: Ask for help from the mediums and the fortunetellers, who whisper and mutter. Should people ask their God for help instead? Why should they ask the dead to help the living? ²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. ²¹ They will pass through the land when they are hard-pressed (destressed) and hungry. When they are hungry, they will be furious. Then they will look up and curse their king and God.

Says the Lord

No

Micah 3:6

Therefore you will have night. You will have no vision! It will be dark to you. You will not perform divination. The sun will go down on the prophets and they will be in the dark.

2 Peter 1:19

We have the word of prophecy made sure (steadfast) (firm)! You do well that you pay attention [to God's Word] as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts.

Isaiah 8:16

Tie up the written instructions. Seal the precepts (law) among my disciples.

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.

Psalm 119:130

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

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the shining light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the more perfect day.

Isaiah 1:10

Listen to the word of Jehovah (YHWH), you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 30:8-11

Write this on a tablet for them, and inscribe it in a book so that it will be there in the future as a permanent witness.

Jeremiah 8:9

Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.

Hosea 6:3

Let us get to know Jehovah! Let us press on (run after) (follow) to get to know him. As surely as the sun rises he will appear. He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.

Malachi 4:2

The sun of righteousness with it's healing will shine on you who respect my name and obey me. You will be free and paw the ground like fat calves.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is wicked, your body will be in darkness. If that light in you is really darkness, how great a darkness it must be.

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered: You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

Mark 7:7-9

They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.'

Luke 10:26

He said: What is written in the law? How do you read it?

Luke 16:29-31

Abraham said: Your brothers have Moses and the prophets to warn them. They should listen to them.

John 5:39

You search (investigate) (study) the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life. These Scriptures testify about me.

John 5:46-47

It is a fact! If you believed Moses you would believe me. He wrote about me!

Acts 17:11

The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

Galatians 3:8-29

The Scripture revealed ahead of time, that God justified the people of the nations by faith. He preached the good news beforehand to Abraham. He said: In you will all the nations be blessed.

Galatians 4:21-22

Tell me, you that desire to be under the Law; do you not hear the Law?

2 Timothy 3:15-17

From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:9

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