Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples. New Living Translation Preserve the teaching of God; entrust his instructions to those who follow me. English Standard Version Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. Berean Standard Bible Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples. King James Bible Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. New King James Version Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples. New American Standard Bible Bind up the testimony, seal the Law among my disciples. NASB 1995 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. NASB 1977 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. Legacy Standard Bible Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. Amplified Bible Bind up the testimony, seal the law and the teaching among my (Isaiah’s) disciples. Christian Standard Bible Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples. Holman Christian Standard Bible Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples. American Standard Version Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Bind up the testimony and ratify the Law with my teaching Brenton Septuagint Translation Then shall those who seal themselves that they may not learn the law be made manifest. Contemporary English Version My message and my teachings are to be sealed and given to my followers. Douay-Rheims Bible Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. English Revised Version Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. GOD'S WORD® Translation Tie up the written instructions. Seal the teachings among my disciples. Good News Translation You, my disciples, are to guard and preserve the messages that God has given me. International Standard Version "Bind up the testimony, and seal up the teaching among my disciples. JPS Tanakh 1917 Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.' Literal Standard Version Bind up the testimony, | Seal the Law among My disciples. Majority Standard Bible Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples. New American Bible Bind up my testimony, seal the instruction with my disciples. NET Bible Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God's instructions and give it to my followers. New Revised Standard Version Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples. New Heart English Bible Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples. Webster's Bible Translation Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. World English Bible Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples. Young's Literal Translation Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Call to Fear God…15Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.” 16Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples. 17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.… Cross References Isaiah 8:1 Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. Isaiah 8:2 And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses--Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah." Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. Isaiah 29:11 And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, "I cannot, because it is sealed." Isaiah 29:12 Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, "I cannot read." Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase." Treasury of Scripture Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. bind up Isaiah 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. the testimony 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. Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, 2 Kings 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king. seal Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Revelation 5:1,5 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals… Revelation 10:4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. among Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. Proverbs 8:8,9 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them… Jump to Previous Bind Disciples Instruction Kept Law Seal Secret Teaching Testimony Words WrapJump to Next Bind Disciples Instruction Kept Law Seal Secret Teaching Testimony Words WrapIsaiah 8 1. In Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, he prophesies Syria and Israel shall be subdued by Assyria5. Judah likewise for their infidelity 9. God's judgments shall be irresistible 11. Comfort shall be to those who fear God 19. Great afflictions to idolaters (16) Bind up the testimony . . .--The intensity of feeling in which the prophetic utterance of Isaiah 8:11-15 had its birth, is followed by a corresponding solemnity at its close. The words which had been so full of meaning for the prophet himself are to be impressed on the disciples of Jehovah (for it is He who speaks), i.e., on those who looked to Isaiah as their guide and counsellor. They are to be written on a parchment roll, as men wrote the sacred Book of the Law; the roll is to be sealed up, partly as a security against its being tampered with, till the time came for its disclosure (Daniel 12:4), partly as an attestation, like the seal of a king's letter (1Kings 21:8; Esther 3:12), that it was authentic. The two terms "testimony" (Deuteronomy 8:19; Psalm 50:7; Psalm 119:2) and "law" are here taken in their wider sense as applicable to any revelation of the mind of God. The "law of the Lord" of Psalm 19:7; Psalm 119:1 was wider and higher than the Pentateuchal code. . . . Verse 16. - Bind up the testimony, etc. The words are still those of Jehovah, addressed to his servant Isaiah. God commands that the prophecy shall be written in a roll, which is then to be carefully tied with a string and sealed, for future use. Seal the Law; rather, the instruction - the advice given in vers. 12-15 (comp. Daniel 12:4). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Bind upצ֖וֹר (ṣō·wr) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 6887: To bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or cramped the testimony תְּעוּדָ֑ה (tə·‘ū·ḏāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8584: Attestation, a precept, usage [and] seal חֲת֥וֹם (ḥă·ṯō·wm) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 2856: To seal, affix a seal, seal up the law תּוֹרָ֖ה (tō·w·rāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law among my disciples. בְּלִמֻּדָֽי׃ (bə·lim·mu·ḏāy) Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 3928: Instructed Links Isaiah 8:16 NIVIsaiah 8:16 NLT Isaiah 8:16 ESV Isaiah 8:16 NASB Isaiah 8:16 KJV Isaiah 8:16 BibleApps.com Isaiah 8:16 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 8:16 Chinese Bible Isaiah 8:16 French Bible Isaiah 8:16 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 8:16 Wrap up the testimony (Isa Isi Is) |
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