Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.In other versions
To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
ASV
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. ...
BBE
To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
DBY
To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
WEB
To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'
YLT
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
ENG
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
WBT
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
BSB
In context
18Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
