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


In Context

17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek to their God? for the living to the dead?

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

21 And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

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 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.