NET Bible
"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."
— Isaiah 8:20, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
Look, I and the sons whom the LORD has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who lives on Mount Zion.
Darkness Turns to Light as an Ideal King Arrives They will say to you,“Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?”
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.
They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.
When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.