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


In Context

17 I will wait for the Lord , who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.

18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.

19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? 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 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

Isaiah 8:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.