Isaiah 8:16,20
Isaiah 8:16-18 The Message (MSG)
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.
Isaiah 8:19-22 The Message (MSG)
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.
Isaiah 8:16 King James Version (KJV)
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 8:20 King James Version (KJV)
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah 8:16 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 8:20 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Isaiah 8:16 New Century Version (NCV)
Make an agreement. Seal up the teaching while my followers are watching.
Isaiah 8:20 New Century Version (NCV)
You should follow the teachings and the agreement with the LORD. The mediums and fortune-tellers do not speak the word of the LORD, so their words are worth nothing.
Isaiah 8:16 American Standard Version (ASV)
Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 8:20 American Standard Version (ASV)
To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 8:16 New International Version (NIV)
Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.
Isaiah 8:20 New International Version (NIV)
Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Isaiah 8:16 New King James Version (NKJV)
Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 8:20 New King James Version (NKJV)
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.
Isaiah 8:16 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Bind up the testimony, seal the law and the teaching among my (Isaiah’s) disciples.
Isaiah 8:20 Amplified Bible (AMP)
[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.
Isaiah 8:16 New Living Translation (NLT)
Preserve the teaching of God; entrust his instructions to those who follow me.
Isaiah 8:20 New Living Translation (NLT)
Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark.
Isaiah 8:16 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Now, tie up the scroll and preserve it as legal evidence. Seal my instructions for the future for my disciples.
Isaiah 8:20 The Passion Translation (TPT)
You are to answer them: “Listen to the teaching and instruction of the Lord! If their speech does not line up with his word, they will have no light of dawn!