Isaiah 8:22
What does Isaiah 8:22 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 8:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And 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!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.
Context
v.21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Zephaniah 1:14
The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly.
- Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;
- Jeremiah 23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
- Matthew 22:13
Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
- Isaiah 5:30
And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
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