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Isaiah 8:20-22
International Standard Version
Isaiah 8:20-22
International Standard Version
20 for instruction and for testimony?
Surely they are speaking like this
because the truth[a] hasn’t dawned on them.
21 “They’ll pass through the land,[b]
while[c] greatly distressed and hungry.
When they are hungry,
they’ll become enraged,
and they’ll curse their king and their god.[d]
They’ll turn their faces upwards,
22 or they’ll look toward the[e] earth,
but they’ll see only distress and darkness,
the gloom that comes from anguish,
and then they’ll be thrown into total darkness.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 8:20 1QIsaa MT lack the truth
- Isaiah 8:21 Lit. through it
- Isaiah 8:21 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks while
- Isaiah 8:21 So 1QIsaa; MT reads gods; LXX reads idols
- Isaiah 8:22 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks the
Isaiah 8:20-22
New International Version
Isaiah 8:20-22
New International Version
20 Consult God’s instruction(A) and the testimony of warning.(B) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light(C) of dawn. 21 Distressed and hungry,(D) they will roam through the land;(E) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse(F) their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,(G) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.(H)
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