Isaiah 8:20

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 8:20

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

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.

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WEB

World English Bible

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

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ASV

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.

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Isaiah 8

¹⁸ Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

¹⁹ When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

²¹ They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

²² Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

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