Isaiah 8:16,20 - Compare All Versions

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Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.

Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Preserve the teaching of God; entrust his instructions to those who follow me.

Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark.

Bind up the testimony.  Seal up the instruction  among my disciples.

Go to God’s instruction and testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

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

Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Gather up the testimony, preserve the teaching for my followers, While I wait for GOD as long as he remains in hiding, while I wait and hope for him. I stand my ground and hope, I and the children GOD gave me as signs to Israel, Warning signs and hope signs from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, who makes his home in Mount Zion.

When people tell you, “Try out the fortunetellers. Consult the spiritualists. Why not tap into the spirit-world, get in touch with the dead?” Tell them, “No, we’re going to study the Scriptures.” People who try the other ways get nowhere—a dead end! Frustrated and famished, they try one thing after another. When nothing works out they get angry, cursing first this god and then that one, Looking this way and that, up, down, and sideways—and seeing nothing, A blank wall, an empty hole. They end up in the dark with nothing.

Bind up the testimony, seal the Law among my disciples.

To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak in accordance with this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law and the teaching among my (Isaiah’s) disciples.

[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers.

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.