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. "
— Isaiah 8:20, American Standard 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.”
“Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.”
“Then you must recall the LORD’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.”
“To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.”
“Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...”
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead?
To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
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.