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


In Context

17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

19 When they tell you, |Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:| shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

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

21 They will pass through it, very 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.

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 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 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.