Isaiah 8:20

WEB

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

KJV

²⁰To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

BSB

²⁰To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

FBV

²⁰Go and examine God's law and his instructions! If what they say doesn't correspond with God's word, there will be no dawn for them.

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Extra References

2 Peter 1:19

¹⁹We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,

¹⁵From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶Every Scripture is God-breathed and^[+] profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Isaiah 30:8-11

⁸Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. ⁹For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law; ¹⁰who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. ¹¹Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

Acts 17:11

¹¹Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Psalms 119:130

¹³⁰The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

John 5:39

³⁹“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Jeremiah 8:9

⁹The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected the LORD’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

John 5:46-47

⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Mark 7:7-9

⁷They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

⁸“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.” ⁹He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Isaiah 8:16

¹⁶Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.