Isaiah 8:22

Isaiah chapter 8 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And 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 · 1901

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.

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.