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Isaiah 8:20
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18 aHere am I and the children whom the Lord has given me!
We bare for signs and wonders in Israel
From the Lord of hosts,
Who dwells in Mount Zion.  
19 And when they say to you, a“Seek those who are mediums and wizards, bwho whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they cseek the dead on behalf of the living?  
20 aTo the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because bthere is no light in them.  
21 They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and acurse their king and their God, and look upward.  
22 Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 8:20

To the law, etc.—the revelation of God by His prophet (Isaiah 8:16), to which he directs them to refer those who would advise necromancy.

if they speak not . . . it is because—English Version understands "they" as the necromancers. But the Hebrew rendered "because" is not this but "who"; and "if not," ought rather to be "shall they not"; or, truly they shall speak according to this word, who have no morning light (so the Hebrew, that is, prosperity after the night of sorrows) dawning on them [MAURER and G. V. SMITH]. They who are in the dark night of trial, without a dawn of hope, shall surely say so, Do not seek, as we did, to necromancy, but to the law," etc. The law perhaps includes here the law of Moses, which was the "Magna Charta" on which prophetism commented [KITTO].




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 8:20:

Isaiah 1:2
Isaiah 8:21-22
Isaiah 34:16
Isaiah 65:4
Jeremiah 28:9
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22

 

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