Catholic Public Domain Version
"And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light. "
— Isaiah 8:20, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
“To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for 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 the Lord, who has concealed his face from the house of Jacob, and I will stand before him.
Behold: I and my children, whom the Lord has given to me as a sign and a portent, in Israel, from the Lord of hosts, who lives on Mount Zion.
And though they say to you, “Seek from seers and diviners,” they who hiss in their incantations, should not the people seek from their God, for the sake of the living, and not from the dead?
And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light.
And he will pass by it; he will fall and become hungry. And when he is hungry, he will become angry, and he will speak evil against his king and his God, and he will lift himself upward.
And he will gaze downward to the earth, and behold: tribulation and darkness, dissolution and distress, and a pursuing gloom. For he will not be able to fly away from its distress.