Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
New American Standard Bible
Then they will
King James Version
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Holman Bible
They will look toward the earth
International Standard Version
or they'll look toward the earth, but they'll see only distress and darkness, the gloom that comes from anguish, and then they'll be thrown into total darkness."
A Conservative Version
And they shall look to the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness [to be] driven away.
American Standard Version
and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.
Amplified
Then they will look to the earth, they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness and overwhelming night.
Bible in Basic English
And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
Darby Translation
and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.
Julia Smith Translation
And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.
King James 2000
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
or look to [the] earth. But look! Distress and darkness, [the] gloom of affliction! And [it will be] thrust [into] darkness!
Modern King James verseion
And they shall look to the land; and behold, trouble and darkness and gloom of anguish! And they are driven away into darkness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and behold, there is trouble and darkness; vexation is round about him, and the cloud of error. And out of such adversity, shall he not escape.
NET Bible
When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
The Emphasized Bible
And unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!
Webster
And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
World English Bible
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Youngs Literal Translation
And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
Themes
Adversity » Sometimes the result of sin and folly
Darkness » Illustrative of » Heavy afflictions
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Trouble and distress
Interlinear
Nabat
'erets
Tsarah
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 8:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Darkness Turns To Light
21 They will pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward, 22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 5:30
They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Zephaniah 1:14-15
The great day of the LORD is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of the LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
2 Chronicles 15:5-6
In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the testimony. If they do not speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 9:1
But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Jeremiah 23:12
"Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Amos 5:18-20
"Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD. Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 22:13
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
Matthew 24:29
But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Luke 21:25-26
There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.