Isaiah 8:22
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 8:22 in other translations
| BSB | Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness. |
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| WEB | then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness. |
| ASV | and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away. |
| YLT | And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! --Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress! |
| DARBY | and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness. |
| BBE | And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing. |
| Webster | And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. |
What does Isaiah 8:22 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 8:21-22
21-22. More detailed description of the despair, which they shall fall into, who sought necromancy instead of God; Is 8:20 implies that too late they shall see how much better it would have been for them to have sought "to the law," &c. (De 32:31). But now they are given over to despair. Therefore, while seeing the truth of God, they only "curse their King and God"; foreshadowing the future, like conduct of those…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 8:17-22
The prophet foresaw that the Lord would hide his face; but he would look for his return in favour to them again. Though not miraculous signs, the children's names were memorials from God, suited to excite attention. The unbelieving Jews were prone to seek counsel in difficulties, from diviners of different descriptions, whose foolish and sinful ceremonies are alluded to. Would we know how we may seek to our God, and…
Isaiah 8:22 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 8:22
- Isaiah 5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
- Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 22:13
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
- Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
- Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Zephaniah 1:14-15
The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
- Amos 5:18-20
Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 15:5-6
And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
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Context
- Isaiah 8:21
And 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.
- Isaiah 8:22
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 8:22 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y mirarán á la tierra, y he aquí tribulación y tiniebla, oscuridad y angustia; y serán sumidos en las tinieblas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et il fixera son regard sur la terre, et voici la détresse et les ténèbres, l’obscurité de l’angoisse! et il est repoussé dans d’épaisses ténèbres. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es wird aufwärts schauen und wird zur Erde blicken: und siehe, Drangsal und Finsternis, angstvolles Dunkel; und in dichte Finsternis ist es hineingestoßen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et ad terram intuebitur; et ecce tribulatio et tenebræ, dissolutio et angustia, et caligo persequens, et non poterit avolare de angustia sua. |